By 2007 Taliban insurgents, who used Pakistan as a haven with the support of Pakistan's military and intelligence establishment, were crossing the border, frequently in sight of Pakistani border posts, and challenging the Afghan government with increasing boldness.
We had firm intelligence that they were crossing into Georgia, a fact later confirmed by telephone intercepts verified by the New York Times and others, and a fact never substantially denied by Russia.
Israeli intelligence assets in Iraq were reporting that the insurgents had the support of Iranian intelligence operatives and other foreign fighters, who were crossing the unprotected border between Iran and Iraq at will.
He also discounted intelligence reports from Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest (and bluster from prisoner of war General Prentiss ) that Buell's men were crossing the river to reinforce Grant.
If a program could consistently counterfeit human language in an ongoing exchange such that you couldn't tell that you were conversing with a computer, then, many theorists have argued, the threshold of intelligence would have been crossed, and there would be no need for more games to conquer.
One section of an intelligence test read: "Deserts are crossed by: horse, camels, mules, elephants".
As the pressure on Saddam Hussein increased, Mr Blair naturally wanted to share with a wider audience some of the information that had so impressed him.While there may have been initial misgivings about putting any intelligence material into the public domain, once that bridge had been crossed, the intelligence services were on their mettle to come up with the goods.
How many of these red lines have been crossed by the Polish government in their cooperation with US intelligence?
As Mark Riebling, the author of "Wedge: The Secret War Between the F.B.I. and C.I.A.," has written, the division of labor into foreign and domestic intelligence was never workable, since spies cross borders.
The intelligence was garbage.
