Sentence examples for intelligence dismissed from inspiring English sources

James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, dismissed the name change as a "P.R. move.'' Mr. Clapper, speaking at the Aspen Security Forum, said the group was trying to attract more moderate rebel elements and avoid airstrikes.

Mohamed Atta British officials with access to intelligence dismiss claims by Washington hawks that Mohamed Atta, the ringleader of the September 11 terrorists, met an Iraqi intelligence official in Prague just months before the attacks.

Many intelligence experts dismissed as posturing the expressions of shock and disappointment among Europe's leaders.

Last week, 11 months after the fact, the director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet, dismissed a midlevel officer who put the X on what turned out to be the embassy.

Senior Pakistani government and intelligence officials dismissed the idea that their country might seek to foment trouble in Afghanistan for strategic reasons.

But the intelligence officials dismissed that explanation as a cover story even while conceding that the equipment could, in fact, have been used occasionally to make hydrogen.

Correction: February 15 , 2001 Thursday An article on Monday about a demonstration in Ukraine misidentified one of two top intelligence officials dismissed on Saturday.

Wading into a growing political debate already tinged by accusations of racism and special treatment, the director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet, dismissed comparisons today between the way the government had responded to evidence of computer security lapses by a former director who lost his security clearance and by a nuclear scientist who is in jail waiting trial.

But it was also a rush job, from 1975-76, which ended up with the committee chairman dashing into a very high-profile but unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, too many experienced intelligence hands dismissed in an institutional zeal to appear reformist, and many loose ends.

She added: "They cannot tell us what the total costs of the programme will be, they hide behind 'classified intelligence' to dismiss legitimate concerns, they won't tell us what 'policy options' they are still considering, and they have the arrogance to say they need 'a safe space away from public gaze' to debate those options, 'unfettered from public comment' about their affordability".

The president-elect, who favors closer ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin, has dismissed intelligence assessments on the hack and accused intelligence officials of building a false case against Moscow.