"One minute they're described as suspects, the next minute they're considered intelligence assets," said Michael Noon, a professor of law at Catholic University of America.
The largest military unit in the Israel Defense Forces is 8200, Israel's legendary elite cyber intelligence unit, a high-tech spy agency that is considered by intelligence analysts to be one of the most formidable of its kind in the world.
The use of polonium 210 is considered by intelligence sources as an outlandish method of killing someone for a discreet state sponsored assassination.
The defectors in the camp are allowed to communicate with the rebel Free Syrian Army in Jordan and abroad, both in person and through telephone and Internet communications, but do not have what is considered valuable intelligence, according to Jordanian security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to make press statements.
In the jargon of the trade, humint (human intelligence) is considered less reliable than comint (communications intelligence) or elint (electronic intelligence).
Mr. Akham, who is believed to be in Afghanistan, is considered by American intelligence officials to have been one of the Taliban leaders closest to Mr. bin Laden.
Mr. Lapham, who is serving his second term as editor (1976-81 and 1983 to the present), is considered a sharp intelligence with an intolerance for cant.
Here's the issue: Kislyak, the Russian ambassador, is considered by US intelligence to be one of Russia's top spies and spy-recruiters.
She is considered inferior in intelligence to humans, an object available for her owner's purchase and pleasure because she doesn't "carry the burden of a heavy soul".
Peskov appears to have been referring to a CNN report that Sergey Kislyak, the portly Russian Ambassador to Washington, is "considered by US intelligence to be one of Russia's top spies and spy-recruiters in Washington".
