In a note forwarded to the Cabinet Office, one analyst pointed out that the forty-five-minutes claim was "rather strong since it is based on a single source" and proposed amending the dossier to say "intelligence suggests" it was true.
He hadn't, but he knew someone who might have; at breakfast the next morning, he asked a senior U.S. military-intelligence official whether the rumor was true.
This was true especially among intelligence officials, who wake up every day worried about what happens when states implode, and whether there will be a free-for-all for their weapons.
"We haven't always been good at expeditionary intelligence, that's true," he said.
And yet how is it possible, if these intelligence reports are true, to count the 2016 Presidential election as unsullied?
And for good reason: if some of the facts relayed by unnamed sources to an also-unnamed ex-British intelligence officer are true, they could be treasonous, impeachable even, according to former NSA legal counsel Susan Hennessey.
Anyone familiar with Whit Stillman's captivating 1990 "Metropolitan" knows that his precise, urbane intelligence is a true tonic on screen.
If it is true that Pakistani intelligence was helpful in locating bin Laden, and kept that matter secret, then we can begin to sort out our fraught relationship with that troubled country on a more equitable, trusting basis.
In either case, the intelligence might not be true — but Steele nonetheless passed along that information.
Although Iraq's American occupiers have worked hard in recent months to prevent such a raid, Turkey's most senior general said that the Americans had not only agreed to the air strikes but had also provided the necessary intelligence.If this is true, it may be the result of a delicate balancing act.
