Sentence examples similar to picking of intelligence from inspiring English sources

In the course of this book Mr. Bush hops and skips over many serious issues raised by critics, including the cherry-picking of intelligence by administration hawks in the walk up to the invasion of Iraq; the push for aggrandized executive power by the White House in the war on terror; and the ignoring of advice from the military and the State Department on troop levels and postwar planning.

With the chaplain concerned that the detainees should be treated well and the command focused on picking up every scrap of intelligence available, it was perhaps inevitable that things would end badly.

Many years ago, I began to pick apart the notion of intelligence as defined and hardly ever challenged by the makers of psychological tests.

"The volume of intelligence we're picking up remains high," an official at the Department of Homeland Security said.

But the Bush administration was cherry picking raw intelligence, much of which was unverified.

Toward the end of 2006, Israel began to pick up intelligence of possible renewed nuclear activity.

Reuters picks out Sawers' remarks on the handling of intelligence in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, in its story.

Picking targets is normally a painstaking process, involving reams of intelligence reports checked and rechecked against satellite photographs.

What does such a bad pick say about the way the incoming administration values the role of Intelligence?

Tom Friedman, on June 26 , 2001 wrote a column in the New York Times, using the technique of making up a "speech" by, you guessed it, Osama bin Laden, mocking Bush for removing investigators from Yemen and removing the fleet from Bahrain just because of "chatter" picked up by intelligence, and castigating the Bush Administration for focusing on Star Wars and ignoring al-Qaeda.

Perhaps in ascending order of intelligence?