The Chinese insisted that American intelligence concerning the company's activities was simply wrong.
Senior White House officials said yesterday that while some intelligence concerning the New York Stock Exchange and the Citigroup buildings was dated, the city was included in a "second stream" of intelligence concerning a possible attack.
A senior US Treasury spokesman said that the EU action had blacked out potentially critical intelligence concerning the financing and identification of al-Qa'ida and its affiliates.
Since then, he had lost much of his influence, in part because intelligence concerning Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, which he promoted, had proved useless.
George W. Bush's intolerance for criticism, including dissenting views about the intelligence concerning Iraq's weapons programs, helped lead to the spectacular failure of the Iraq War.
The lockdown at the arteries entering Manhattan followed what police officials described over the weekend as intelligence concerning a possible attack with car or truck bombs.
But the official said it now appeared that the quality of the intelligence concerning Iraq's weapons programs subsequently declined, particularly after the inspectors were withdrawn in 1998.
"The N.Y.P.D. is continuing a massive, all-encompassing dragnet for intelligence concerning anything connected with Muslim activity through intrusive infiltration and record-keeping about all aspects of life, politics and worship," the court filing stated.
Since a series of Watergate-era abuses involving spying on White House political enemies, the C.I.A. and other spy agencies have been prohibited from collecting intelligence concerning the activities of American citizens inside the United States.
And what was really important here was that a man, with a wife and family, took his own life because of the fallout from the row about the use of intelligence concerning WMDs.
