It's time for a European security agency to ensure intelligence is shared more effectively.
A senior administration official said that not all intelligence is shared with every ally.
The property being ascribed to plants as intelligence is shared by all organisms, even the single-celled amoeba.
British intelligence is shared directly with the US military, which has been conducting air strikes against Islamic State positions for the past 10 days.
But, the official said, "now that the U.S. side has drawn our attention to the possibility of the Taliban being tipped off between the day the intelligence was shared and the day of our military action, we will work on finding out what happened".
This means having a nuclear deterrent, a deployable army division, a blue-water navy with two aircraft carriers, and an air force with fighters and deep-strike jets.Defence ties with America bring big benefits: intelligence is shared and Britain has preferential access to some American technology, not least the Trident missiles that help make Britain's nuclear deterrent cheaper than France's.
The murder of Victoria Climbié was supposed to create a watershed moment for the civil service but, almost a decade after the report into her death called for fundamental change, too little has evolved in the way that government intelligence is shared and pooled.
Carly Nyst, a UK-based human rights lawyer, said: "The British people should be especially worried: the NSA and GCHQ act so closely, and intelligence is shared so fulsomely, that any increase in surveillance under Trump will undeniably touch upon the privacy of Britons' communications".
Lisa Kubiske, the US deputy chief of mission in the capital, Brasília, noted approvingly that counter-terrorism intelligence was shared across the government, but said people around the president seemed to want to conceal the Islamist threat – and co-operation with the US – from the public.
