Sentence examples for intelligence priorities from inspiring English sources

Notwithstanding the D.C.I.'s December 1998 exhortation to spare no resources, however, counterterrorism had to compete with other intelligence priorities.

In a classic example of intelligence trading, the South African spy suggested that agreeing to the CIA's request would allow the SSA to understand US intelligence priorities.

Senior C.I.A. officers pointed to, for example, a variety of regional and global issues as intelligence priorities that required resource allocations.

The officials have acknowledged that their resources, particularly in terms of Arabic speakers, were stretched thin by the demands of the weapons search and other intelligence priorities.

And we will review decisions about intelligence priorities and sensitive targets on an annual basis, so that our actions are regularly scrutinized by my senior national security team.

Mr. Clapper discussed the intelligence priorities framework during his testimony on Tuesday, partly to point out that the American intelligence services spy only on the people and places they are asked to by policy makers.

Sabotaging it had become a top U.S. intelligence priority.

Stopping them from falling into terrorist hands should be our top intelligence priority.

According to the presentation, it became a "serious intelligence priority" for the British secret intelligence services (SIS) to spy on UN international climate negotiations in 2007.

Unlike the C.I.A. and F.B.I., military intelligence had not made terrorism an intelligence priority before Sept. 11, and that weakness showed after the attacks, officials said.

Budget files provided to The Washington Post by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden depict Russia as on par with China and North Korea as an intelligence priority.