George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, resigned for what he said were personal reasons.
But it has been startling to see leading scientists employ science itself in arguments for believing in a kind of supernatural: Jürgen Schmidhuber, a prominent researcher in artificial intelligence, calls for what he has dubbed "computational theology," while Baylor College of Medicine neuroscientist David Eagleman has proposed a kind of religious perspective that he calls "Possibilianism".
A separate investigation by the Senate intelligence committee found the US had insufficient security at the Benghazi post and spread the blame among the State Department, the military and US intelligence for missing what now seem like obvious warning signs.
Over chicken and biscuits he found he "liked her competitiveness, intelligence and passion for what goes into winning and losing".
And at a bookstore in South Florida, Maria De Los Rios, 28, a legal assistant, said she found the intelligence failings frightening for what else they might imply.
They became not only the translators, cryptologists and intelligence agents required for what Arthur Schlesinger Jr. famously called the "long twilight struggle" between Communism and the West but also the scholars, diplomats and sundry Sovietologists who in many ways enacted the policy of détente and assisted in the peaceful resolution of the cold war.
What are you looking for when you hire? A. For me, the biggest predictors of success are raw intelligence and a passion for what you do.
George J. Tenet, director of central intelligence, arrived in Israel tonight for what American officials described as a brief visit focused on security cooperation.
Mr. Hytner, who helped make Alan Bennett's "History Boys" a sprightly cash cow for the National, has always combined sharp theatrical intelligence with a populist instinct for what the customer wants.
The election meddling, the intelligence community said, was retaliation for what Putin perceived as U.S. efforts to undermine Russian credibility.
