Was Mr Feith then disobeying his boss when he set up a Pentagon operation to cherry-pick intelligence on the insubstantial connections between Iraq and al-Qaeda?In other areas, Mr Feith has a selective memory.
Applicants received two points for answering "dependency" or "affectionateness," one point for choosing "beauty" and none for picking "intelligence" or "independence".
Interestingly, these revelations confirm complaints that political appointees and senior officials tend to cherry-pick intelligence to justify a pre-determined course of action, again either for political reasons or personal gain.
Word is, and you know how the word is, that Obama had been leaning to picking intelligence professional John Brennan, who advised him during the campaign, as CIA director.
Toward the end of 2006, Israel began to pick up intelligence of possible renewed nuclear activity.
Mowlam, an irrepressible optimist, would wander the corridors, pop into the parties in other rooms, pick up intelligence and exude the necessary sense of momentum.
The air assault was a way for the battalion to re-establish its presence in an isolated area, detain insurgents and pick up intelligence on the region.
Mr. Emanuel, 49, starts his day shortly after 5 a.m., when he swims at the Y.M.C.A. and then hits the House gymnasium to pick up intelligence from colleagues from his days in Congress.
The "agent program" framework introduced by Eiter, Subrahmanian and Pick [Artificial Intelligence 108 (1999 (179]) 179], supports developing agents on top of arbitrary legacy code.
And it succumbed to all the rationales for the Clinton pick: her intelligence, experience, global celebrity, discretion and discipline.
Hoover and his colleagues picked up intelligence that Morgan and other members of the Second Front, including Menoyo and Jesús Carreras, had gathered in Trinidad, where they had secured a muddy airstrip, effectively cutting the island in two.
