The last thing you want is someone showing off their intelligence, commenting on a performance as they're performing it.
But Yossi Melman, the Haaretz newspaper's expert on intelligence, commented that such stories were "another example of the sort of psychological warfare against Hamas that would have the organisation become even more suspicious of flawed security in its ranks".
Dr. Howard Gardner, globally respected author of Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, comments: "Anthony Seldon is a provocative and thoughtful educator.
When asked whether any of these claims, if confirmed, would cross Mr. Obama's threshold for military intervention in the two-year-old Syrian conflict, Mr. Clapper insisted that "was a policy question and not one for intelligence to comment on".
There is another argument that suggests that childhood is so complex now that the only convincing first-person way to write about it is by allowing an adult sensibility – and intelligence – to comment upon it.
Last week, senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat and a member of the Senate intelligence committee, commented that the Obama administration was "getting concerned about the bulk phone records collection" and speculated it might "move administratively" to restrict it.
11 34 a.m.: This post has been updated with the role of the Turkish intelligence agency, comments and background.
However the intelligence officer commented, "Although the report claims to have evidence to support the figure mentioned, there is no collateral in support of the statement".
However, the intelligence officer commented, "Although the report claims to have evidence to support the figure mentioned, there is no collateral in support of the statement".
British intelligence agencies never comment on whether someone is an agent.
A spokesman for Mike McConnell, director of national intelligence, declined to comment on Tuesday.
