Those reports, he said, were later "cynically manipulated" by American intelligence officials to assert that Iran — not Iraq — was using cyanide.
Recently, the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) marshalled former senior military and intelligence experts in order to assert such limits to expression by warning us that "deference" to multiculturalism was undermining the fight against Islamic "extremism" and threatening security.
But while the president's signature was the final act in a tumultuous legislative debate, it signaled the start of a new and perhaps equally turbulent period in which the intelligence director will need to assert authority to force the Central Intelligence Agency and 14 other spy agencies to work together.
A senior intelligence official said that Mr. Powell and other senior administration officials were being provided briefings by the C.I.A. "as we develop new information" about the intelligence that led the administration to assert before the war that Iraq possessed illicit weapons.
I think it is an insult to the many intelligence officers who have acquired good intelligence without hurting or degrading prisoners to assert we can't win this war without such methods.
October 29, 2013 Updated at 6.43pm GMT 6.34pm GMT Rogers asks Clapper about a news report in which a French intelligence official says it's preposterous for politicians to assert they don't know what the intelligence services are up to.
A19 Intelligence Chief Is Confirmed The Senate confirmed John D. Negroponte as the country's first director of national intelligence, with key senators urging him to assert his power quickly over the nation's 15 spy agencies.
And if May wants to assert that gigantic intelligence databases are necessary to 'keep people safe', it's worth making the obvious point that the UK security agencies' bulk data collection habits did not prevent the 7/7 co-ordinated terror attack in London, in July 2005.
The country has sent military and intelligence gathering units to the region to assert the freedom of navigation. .
Under the law, officials have to assert only that foreign intelligence is a part of their need; before that, it had to be the only purpose.
An eagerness to assert control over the police and intelligence services is often a sign of trouble ahead.
