Sentence examples for mistaken intelligence from inspiring English sources

Inexplicably — perhaps due to mistaken intelligence regarding the Union position — General Floyd reversed course in the middle of the escape and retreated back into the surrounded trenches.

With some relief, administration officials said the report had also found no evidence that political pressure from the White House or Pentagon contributed to the mistaken intelligence.

Against a backdrop of spirited debate and boisterous dissent, Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday defended his decision to go to war in Iraq, saying that he was ready to take responsibility for his actions before the country while asserting that freedom and democracy in Iraq were more important than any mistaken intelligence.

The detention of these men - presumably most of them Muslim - was illegal, and in many instances based on mistaken intelligence, but the program of abuse that they were subjected to was not.

Further complicating the president's choices is the murky nature of the evidence against Syria, a constant concern because of the lingering memories of mistaken intelligence on Iraq's weapons a decade ago.

She emphasises that people should not mistake intelligence for knowledge about an industry.

Wasn't it possible that what others mistook for intelligence was in fact only a sort of mutation of the will?

On Aug. 9, 1971, police officers and soldiers arrested 342 people, mostly Catholics, who were interned without charge or trial, many on the strength of outdated intelligence, mistaken identity or village gossip.

The agency's own secret history would admit "at no time did we have anything that could or should have been mistaken for an intelligence operation".

Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.

Even among the 119 held in CIA custody, 26 were due to mistaken identities and faulty intelligence.