Sentence examples for intelligence missed from inspiring English sources

The latter version of the question is a fairly common one for candidates of all political stripes, and - for the most part - it results in a dispassionate discussion of faulty intelligence, missed opportunities and unintended consequences not too different from the way Mr Bush answered.

Is he right and did our intelligence miss something?

Behind the clamorous, disheveled prose, the tirades and philippics, one senses a moral intelligence missing from much contemporary fiction that aspires self-consciously to a Nabokovian poise and beauty.

There is no evidence that encryption played a role in Western intelligence missing the Paris attacks.

Henry Kissinger remembers being disappointed that American intelligence had failed to foresee the war and being flabbergasted that Israeli intelligence had missed it.

Again, American intelligence agencies missed many of the signals.

That is what the entire intelligence community missed.

After the 1979 Iranian revolution, there was a painful post-mortem about why the intelligence community missed so many signals, and I think we need the same today.

For years, American intelligence agencies missed evidence that the North was building a reactor in the Syrian desert, near the Iraq border.

(The North Koreans were kind enough to give the administration a heads-up, in case the Mr Magoos of the intelligence establishment missed the fireworks).

The announcement came as lawmakers heard still more about bungled intelligence analysis, missed opportunities and a failure by agencies to communicate with each other.