Though President Bush has said that any inquiry should remain the province of the intelligence committees, Democratic and Republican members of the Judiciary Committee say they were within their rights in hearing the first public testimony from Coleen Rowley, the F.B.I. whistle-blower.
And he employed the very methods — hit men, misdirection, stagecraft — that, in the past, had been the province of corrupt states and intelligence outfits.
The spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said Taliban fighters had long sought to kill Mr. Laghmani, blaming him for detentions and jailings in Kandahar Province, where he was head of intelligence in the province, the Taliban's heartland, from 2003 to 2004.
After the surrender of Kandahar more than a week ago, Mullah Omar retreated into the mountains near Baghran, about 100 miles northwest of here, in neighboring Helmand Province, said Hajji Gullalai, the newly appointed director of intelligence for four provinces in southern Afghanistan.
To filter content automatically and accurately would require software capable of making human judgments – working artificial intelligence, the province of science fiction.
Mullah Dadullah, who led the Pakistani Taliban in the Bajaur tribal agency, was killed late Friday in a strike on a compound across the border in the Afghan province of Kunar, NATO and Pakistani intelligence officials said.
Open-ended data-driven visualizations tend to be the province of data scientists and business intelligence analysts, although new tools have begun to engage general managers in visual exploration.
Military intelligence is the province of the Directorates of Military Intelligence, Naval Intelligence, and Air Intelligence, and the Joint Cipher Bureau provides interservice cryptology and signals intelligence.
During wartime service in Vietnam with the C.I.A. from 1970 to 1972, I was in charge of intelligence operations in the 10 provinces surrounding Saigon.
Although many paleoanthropologists have come to doubt that stone tools were the sole province of humans, they remain a proxy for the evolution of intelligence, and scientists have been on the hunt for even older ones.
Eight Afghans were killed and about a dozen were wounded in a town in the southern province of Helmand on Tuesday, after Afghan intelligence officers fired on rioters incensed by rumors that Americans conducting a night raid had desecrated a Koran and defiled local women.
