Sentence examples for intelligence error from inspiring English sources

The postmortem reports of C.I.A. weapons inspectors confirm the view that Saddam remained interested in one day reconstituting his weapons-of-mass-destruction programs, Feith said, and went on, "There's a certain revisionism in people looking back and identifying the main intelligence error" — the assumption of stockpiles — "and then saying that our entire policy was built on that error".

The postmortem reports of C.I.A. weapons inspectors confirm the view that Saddam remained interested in one day reconstituting his weapons-of-mass-destruction programs, Feith said, and went on, "There's a certain revisionism in people looking back and identifying the main intelligence error"—the assumption of stockpiles—"and then saying that our entire policy was built on that error".

Even those most conscious of the intelligence errors that preceded the invasion of Iraq concede that this case is different.

"Uncertain Toll in the Fog of War: Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan" (front page, Feb. 10) mentions intelligence errors and weapon systems errors as causes of civilian deaths.

On a trip to southern Putumayo State to meet with his military commanders, President Álvaro Uribe acknowledged logistical and intelligence errors by the military after Marxist rebels killed 25 soldiers in two separate engagements on Saturday.

The website of the July 7th Truth Campaign crackles with barely contained fury at what it sees as a wilful refusal of the government to hold a public inquiry into what really happened that day, the police and intelligence errors, the discrepancies in the official account, the scale of the plot four years ago yesterday.

Stopping torture requires a balanced perspective on intelligence errors.

In order to understand states' willingness to use methods like torture that produce unreliable information, we need to appreciate how states value the two types of intelligence errors: omission and commission.

Everyone seems to forget that, regardless of intelligence errors or even cherry-picking, what we now know about the absence of WMD in Iraq was indeed knowable prior to the invasion.

These steps have helped, but have not solved the problem of poor intelligence, human error, and a lack of transparency and accountability.

That post outlined three key risks around artificial intelligence: programming errors in AI software; cyber-attacks on AI systems by criminals, terrorists and government-backed hackers; and so-called Sorcerer's Apprentice scenarios, when AI systems respond to human instructions in unexpected (and possibly dangerous) ways.