Sentence examples for intelligence omitted from inspiring English sources

Correction: October 29 , 2002 Tuesday Because of an editing error, an obituary yesterday about Thomas B. Ross, a former government official who wrote best-selling books on military intelligence, omitted a surviving daughter and misstated the hometown of another.

Three: Blair had to rely on verbal briefings from the JIC chairman and others, who told him about the 45 minutes bit of the intelligence but omitted to mention that it referred only to battlefield weapons, and neither the prime minister nor any of the brilliant young staff asked the obvious question.

Australia's approach is similar to Britain's, and "investigating magistrates" in civil-law countries such as France may provide summaries of spies' intelligence that omit some details.

On defence, the raw data on expenditure was far from complete; spending by the security and intelligence agencies were omitted from the files.

The Butler inquiry found that the qualifications and caveats that would usually be found in an "authentic" intelligence assessment were mysteriously omitted from the dossier.

In a yearlong controversy over enemy "order of battle" assessments (intelligence estimates of the strength and organization of enemy forces), he put an arbitrary ceiling on the numbers that his intelligence officers could report and omitted certain categories of irregular forces that had long been included.

The omitted word was fame.

But the big question the White House now confronts is how to respond to the Iraqi information, and whether to counter it with declassified American intelligence information to prove that Mr. Hussein omitted the most damaging evidence of his weapons programs.

"The CIA consistently omitted the significant amount of relevant intelligence obtained from [other] sources," it charges, "leaving the false impression that the CIA was acquiring unique information from the use of the techniques".

The clandestine abduction operations featuring British intelligence agencies to Libya also involved children, a fact omitted from last week's Senate report.

A front-page article yesterday about President Bush's order increasing the national state of alert omitted five words from his comment about new intelligence that led to the decision.