Wiretap tips forwarded by the SOD usually come from foreign governments, U.S. intelligence agencies or court-authorized domestic phone recordings.
The intelligence had been "forwarded to NSA", the document explained.
The second, last month, was on balance more favourable towards Iraq and critical of the intelligence claims put forward by the US.
And the more the public pays attention to the wider war on terror, the more he can talk about his own plans for Afghanistan and intelligence reform, which are more ambitious than Mr Bush's.Mr Bush moved to correct that impression this week by announcing that he would accept two of the main recommendations for reforming the intelligence services put forward by the September 11th commission.
The intelligence subsequently was forwarded, he said.
No intelligence on the African National Congress was forwarded to South Africa before President Reagan took office, the sources quoted by The Times stressed.
The emails, initially sent to the State Department by two U.S. ambassadors serving abroad and forwarded to Powell's account by an aide, were described in notifications sent to Congress in recent days by the State Department and intelligence community inspectors general.
Although Dimmitt forwarded the intelligence to Austin, he was not given authorization to attack.
Such letters are routinely forwarded to the department's intelligence division for evaluation, but a senior police official said the decision to arrest Mr. Hunter appeared to have been made by police officials in Staten Island.
Any evidence put forward by US intelligence officials has to be taken with a grain of salt.
The contacts were above all carried forward by British intelligence, but also with the help of Italian, Egyptian, Algerian and Moroccan spooks.
