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Bout, who is believed to have ties to Russian intelligence, was caught during a sting in Thailand in 2008 offering to sell weapons to people he thought were Colombian paramilitaries.

If the White House won't call for a Roberts-like investigation of how our intelligence was caught off guard prior to and following Sept. 11, Congress should.

Similarly, U.S. intelligence was caught off guard in November 2010 when North Korean officials took a visiting American scientist on a tour of a newly constructed uranium enrichment facility that is making low-level reactor fuel but could be converted to produce highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons.

6 NATIONAL 18-30 Tenet at Center of Investigation George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, is caught between his loyalty to the president and defending an agency enraged at the report that someone in the White House exposed a C.I.A. officer to punish her husband for criticizing the administration.

The Israelis maintain that they have been ultra-careful since the huge embarrassment in 1985 when Jonathan Pollard, an American intelligence analyst, was caught spying for Israel.

Cole and we lost 17 people," he impatiently notes — the president said that the intelligence community was caught off guard by the attack planned by the Qaeda affiliate in Yemen, even though "we knew that they sought to strike the United States, and that they were recruiting operatives to do so".

For its part, Trinidad and Tobago's overstaffed intelligence agency was caught last year tapping the phones of the country's president and several journalists, but it has had little impact on the drug gangs.Mrs Persad-Bissessar's People's Partnership coalition swept to power last May, with a manifesto that did not mention hanging.

In April the foreign-intelligence agency was caught snooping on a journalist.

Kruglanski and the political scientist Uri Bar-Joseph hypothesize that heightened N.F.C. and its concomitant cognitive "freezing" were in large part responsible for the start of the Yom Kippur War, the October 6, 1973, Israeli intelligence failure where Israel was caught unprepared for a surprise attack from Egypt and Syria.

The intelligence reports suggest that Mr. Castro was caught off guard by the Kennedy assassination.

Kirk, a former intelligence officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve, was caught making multiple embellishments and misstatements about his military record, including where he served.