Sentence examples for intelligence spending from inspiring English sources

Turf-conscious members of the armed services committees may resist losing control over nonmilitary intelligence spending.

The void of information has led to much speculation, much of it ill informed, about intelligence spending.

In 1977 a new director, Stansfield Turner, was asked by the Office of Management and Budget to reduce intelligence spending.

They argued instead that intelligence spending authorized in the measure, whose total remains classified, was inadequate to the country's needs.

Members of Congress are calling for major shifts in intelligence spending, by transferring spending from satellites to human spying efforts.

Without vigorously disputing the figures on his attendance record, they said Mr. Kerry had proposed capping, not cutting, intelligence spending.

David Cohen, who is the N.Y.P.D.'s Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence, spent thirty-five yeats athehe C.I.A. — he rose to become director of operations there — and he told me, "The N.Y.P.D. is on a hair trigger.

To prove the point, Mr. McConnell, then the director of national intelligence, spent much of last summer urging senior government officials to examine the Treasury Department's scramble to contain the effects of the collapse of Bear Stearns.

Psychologist Daniel Goleman's seminal book, Emotional Intelligence, spent 18 months on the New York Times bestseller list.

He later said in an interview that he learned much about British intelligence by spending time with two famous British spies who had defected to Moscow, Kim Philby and George Blake.

During national service he was a sergeant in the intelligence corps, spending a period as an interpreter and translator at the British embassy in Paris and then compiling and analysing intelligence with a field security unit based in Taunton, Somerset.