After the first round of disclosures, in which Mr. Snowden charged that Germany was the most spied-upon country in Europe — viewed by American intelligence as equally important to China — Ms. Merkel said that she and President Obama had discussed the issue during his visit to Berlin last month.
The failure of political intelligence was equally disastrous.
All its members were endowed with unusual intelligence, were equally at home with the languages and literary traditions of both England and Italy, and were united among themselves by close ties of affection and mutual understanding.
But there are a lot more smart, hard-working people who believe that intelligence is equally distributed across race and gender.
The upfront costs are exorbitant — just launching a single data center today can easily cost hundreds of millions of dollars or more, and conducting original R&D in a competitive industry like artificial intelligence is equally expensive when a machine learning expert can go for tens of millions of dollars.
"I noticed that many of the claims that were being made for dog intelligence could equally, and in some cases better be made for the intelligence of some of these other animals," Lea tells me.
Such analyses of historical figures are perhaps best taken with a pinch of salt, however, and it has to be said that other traits, such as cooperation and intelligence, should be equally important for success.
The wider challenge for the field is that all artificial intelligence research is equally applicable to offensive technologies as it is to improving the human condition.
Equally important, increased American assistance has been accompanied by closer institutional links between the two countries' defense and intelligence communities, as well as more intimate personal ties between both communities' top echelons.
Military and intelligence authorities were equally surprised.
