Sentence examples for intelligence mistaken from inspiring English sources

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On Aug. 9, 1971, police officers and soldiers arrested 342 people, mostly Catholics, who were interned without charge or trial, many on the strength of outdated intelligence, mistaken identity or village gossip.

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He promised to make public the unvarnished truth about any intelligence mistakes.

The former high-level intelligence official told me, "They don't want to make any W.M.D. intelligence mistakes, as in Iraq.

There were also calls -- not just from Republicans -- to focus on averting future attacks rather than tracing intelligence mistakes.

A Yemeni official told Hersh that in the course of the operation there had been two intelligence "mistakes" that almost resulted in targeting innocent Bedouins.

The Yemeni official told me, however, that earlier there had been two intelligence "mistakes" that almost resulted in targeting innocent Bedouins.

In "Zero Dark Thirty," several larger truths — the many intelligence mistakes, the loss of focus and diversion of resources, and the fallout from the folly of the Iraq war — are missing.

An independent commission to investigate the intelligence mistakes before the Sept. 11 attacks is needed for one simple reason: intelligence agencies are able to use the secrecy that cloaks their operations to conceal their failings.

Strange, considering how the nation's interest is riveted on this week's report on our Iraqi intelligence mistakes, how little interest was shown in the Senate Intelligence Committee's extensive report on the terrorist attack on the U.S.S.

Israeli officials said that an intelligence mistake led to the killing of the wrong five Palestinians in an ambush on Monday of a checkpoint in Beituniya in the West Bank.

It comes at a time when a host of government panels are looking into what appear to be intelligence mistakes disclosed by the failure of inspectors so far to find the chemical and biological weapons in Iraq that the Bush administration cited as a principal reason for going to war there a year ago.

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