Later, The Times also published some excellent work on how an administration eager to justify its decision to go to war cherry-picked the intelligence to make its case.
Even if you buy Rove's predictable (and easily refuted) claims that the White House neither hyped, manipulated nor cherry-picked the intelligence, his portrait of Bush as an apostle of containment is absurd.
Unlike the prelude to the Iraq war, when many critics accused Bush White House officials of cherry-picking the intelligence to conform to their policy, some outside analysts say they do not see evidence of the Obama administration pushing intelligence officials to come up with predetermined answers.
Administration figures leaked useful (mis)information, pressed the CIA to cherry-pick the intelligence they wanted, and even formed their own secret intel outfit to give them what they needed.
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.
Ms. Graham, 55, said she picked the dozen women "for their intelligence, their goals, their savvy, their commitment to their work and their appreciation that their dreams as little girls may be very different from the lives they are living as women, and yet they still have more dreams to fulfill".
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.
Both men were picked up by the intelligence wing of the Revolutionary Guards.
"It has to be asked why a large scale attack like this, which would have a footprint, was not picked up by the intelligence services".
That doesn't mean it's not, but so far nothing has been picked up by the intelligence community from Day One," King said.
