In an address that year the librarian, John MacMullen, envisioned a great future for the library with "an ample Reading-Room, whither the Telegraph, on lightning wings, concentrates intelligence from all quarters of the world".
Combining fresh and detailed intelligence with lightning-quick raids by Special Forces commandos, McChrystal's team systematically killed or captured middle- and high-ranking insurgent leaders, causing their organization to stumble and disintegrate.
PAGE C1 Pentagon Official Resigns Douglas J. Feith, the Pentagon official who became a lightning rod for issues including intelligence on Iraq and information warfare, said he would resign this summer.
Within 15 minutes President Garfield had drawn his last breath and the sorrowful intelligence was being sent with lightning speed throughout the country.
Even before I went to jail, I had become a lightning rod for public fury over the intelligence failures that helped lead our country to war.
After a lightning bolt gives it human emotions and intelligence, a military robot escapes and finds refuge at the home of an animal-loving pacifist.
His intelligence found its conductor like a lightning bolt finds the Earth.
In December 2008, seventeen U.S. military advisers provided logistics, communications, and intelligence support for the Ugandan and Congolese army's Operation Lightning Thunder, an attempt to nab Kony which failed.
Intelligence work is a snake pit, and the C.I.A. is a lightning rod, so perhaps unusually high rates of turnover at the top should be expected.
George J. Tenet's surprise departure as director of central intelligence removes from President Bush's inner circle one of the lightning rods for the criticism that America went to war based on faulty intelligence.
