There is a respectable line of evolutionary argument that scheming, and the manipulation of the behaviour of one's fellow humans that goes with it, is the primary biological purpose of intelligence.
So that's the whole purpose of intelligence; to produce intentions and capabilities of potential adversaries.
JA: Yes, but the purpose of intelligence gathering is to understand what is happening and then to create a plan in response to what is happening.
Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law, said the Ghailani ruling meant that "the speedy trial argument is not going to work in terrorism cases where the defendant is held, whether for two weeks on a boat or for two years, for purposes of intelligence collection".
With these advantages, the next generation of drones are fantastic assets for purposes of intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting.
With these advantages, the next generation of American drones provides fantastic assets for purposes of intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting.
After Operation Motorman, the British Army controlled the Bogside and Creggan by stationing large numbers of troops within the area, by conducting large-scale 'search' operations that were in fact undertaken for purposes of intelligence gathering, and by setting up over a dozen covert observation posts.
This has left Americans (and the British and French) with an abiding scepticism about the use of intelligence and the purpose of intervention.
(In other words, outrageous acts of personal abuse done for the purpose of gathering intelligence were permissible).
By working for al-Qaida, Padilla, Comey argued, could be deprived of a lawyer and indefinitely detained as an enemy combatant on a military brig off the South Carolina coast for the purpose of extracting intelligence out of him.
What is the purpose of an intelligence agency, anyway?
