The murky information about drones and their targets reflects the difficulty in establishing exactly what happens in an area too dangerous for independent observers to explore.
Former intelligence officials say that this shows appropriate vigilance in dealing with often murky information, while some detractors argue that the agency is not just careful but also overly skittish on Iran, reluctant to be blamed for any findings that might lead the United States to bloodshed.
With such murky information, clients and patients may face life-or death situations in the addiction treatment industry.
In one filing, they emphasized another similarly murky piece of information they received from prosecutors that they said raised questions about Mr. Louima's account.
The second, set five years after the outbreak and distinctly dystopian in tone, showed the aftermath – more than half the world's population wiped out, a second war on terror – and murky suppression of information by the political establishment.
Mysteries, though, are a lot murkier: sometimes the information we've been given is inadequate, and sometimes we aren't very smart about making sense of what we've been given, and sometimes the question itself cannot be answered.
President Obama has tasked his top homeland and national security officials with nothing less than mapping and reining in the vast and murky empire of federal information, including turf battles and technology glitches.
Clausewitz posited that battle is inherently chaotic and information always murky.
The children have been unable to obtain an accounting of the estate, in part because their legal right to the information is murky.
Instead, where a forecasting model has the potential to add more value is precisely when the information is murkier — either by (correctly) discerning a trend a few days before other methods do, or (just as importantly) by avoiding attaching too much significance to one based on flimsy evidence.
FOR nearly three years, murky speculation, innuendo and inaccurate information have kept a connection between Saddam Hussein and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 alive in the American mind.
