In 1989, Kirtzman says, Sharpton went so far as to supply the Giuliani camp with "intelligence picked up from the streets".
In the spring and summer of 2001, American intelligence picked up several reports that strongly indicated that Al Qaeda intended a major attack against American targets.
What we do know is that U.S. intelligence picked up conversations indicating that the crown prince had ordered an operation to entrap Khashoggi into returning to the kingdom.
Among the intelligence picked up ahead of the raising of America's terror-alert level last month was communication about a possible further attack on America in the near future.
Military intelligence picked up specific indications that the League of the Righteous, or Asaib al-Haq, one of the more maleficent Shiite militant groups, has set a goal of kidnapping American service personnel made vulnerable by the withdrawal.
10 years ago, a young colonel from military intelligence picked me up from Rangoon airport and asked me point-blank: "Do you think only Aung San Suu Kyi can bring democracy to our country?", to which I answered bluntly, "No, absolutely not.
As soon as US intelligence picked up on his call, Mr Killbot was dispatched.
"This administration has a history of hyping intelligence, distorting intelligence — " "Cherry picking!" Matzzie chimed in.
Indeed, any senior intelligence pick who has served in any capacity in government or as a private intelligence contractor during the past seven years is likely to evoke the kind of criticism that derailed Brennan's prospects as a national intelligence chief.
President Bush today named veteran diplomat John D. Negroponte to the new post of national intelligence chief, picking the current ambassador to Iraq and former envoy to the United Nations in a surprise choice to oversee 15 intelligence agencies.
