But Mr. Hammond recalled the faulty intelligence that led Britain to support the 2003 invasion of Iraq as reason to establish a legally credible chain of custody for evidence of past or future chemical attacks.
Mr. Kerry, who once served as the chairman of the committee, sat next to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, a former member of the panel, and recalled the flawed intelligence assessments that helped propel the Senate to approve American military action against Iraq in 2003.
One only needs to recall the Five Eyes an intelligence partnership finalized in 1980 between Canada, the United States, England, Britian, and New Zealand to completely spy on the world to realize this is nothing new.
It stated: "It is also worth recalling previous intelligence to the effect that Mr Lynch's intelligence officers in Northern Ireland are Messrs Cooper, Currie, O'Hanlon and Hume, the latter having now publicly stated that only a United Ireland now will satisfy the minority".
"If you'll recall, the Congress looked at the same intelligence and came to the same conclusions.
Another Marine, "Corporal O," whose identity was not revealed during the hearing due to his training as a counter-intelligence agent, also recalled the killings.
David Wise, author of many books on intelligence, said the episode recalled the C.I.A.'s response to the planned publication of his 1964 book on the agency, "The Invisible Government".
To clarify what Warwick means by this, we have to recall the human-centrism of classic AI, to which the final prototype of intelligence is human intelligence.
Pustay recalled the small group huddled around LBJ: Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy, Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms, and General Earle Wheeler, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
(I recall the nightly sight of him at Max's Kansas City, with his permanent smirk and his somehow physically palpable, daunting intelligence).
