It's high time that we returned intelligence to its rightful owners, the American public and its representatives in Congress".
Firebees fitted with receivers to detect electronic countermeasures returned intelligence about Soviet-built surface-to-air missiles that enabled American engineers to design appropriate detection and jamming equipment.
President Bush may not be able to repair his Iran policy (which was not rigorous enough to begin with) in his last year, but he would leave a lasting legacy by returning the intelligence world to its proper function.
The NSA and the CIA minimization procedures now require analysts to create a "statement of facts showing that a query is reasonably likely to return foreign intelligence information" before searching section 702 data for U.S.-person information, but the procedures do not require that foreign intelligence be the purpose of conducting the search (see here and here for more).
There are several benefits of the DTF process; such as, it returns actionable intelligence in a speedy reliable manner.
About the only restriction on NSA's ability to query its communication troves is that such searches must be "reasonably likely to return foreign intelligence information," already a broad category, NSA chief lawyer Rajesh De told the panel in March.
Instead of banning the warrantless querying of Americans' data, it says such queries should only occur "based upon a statement of facts showing that the query is reasonably likely to return foreign intelligence information", a determination it pointedly does not recommend a judge making.
A Peruvian police plane returned former intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos to his native land as a prisoner Monday, ending an eight-month, U.S.-aided manhunt and opening a new, uncertain chapter in this country's history.
Alexander continued his intelligence gathering by volunteering to go up in an observation balloon at Gaines' Mill on June 27, ascending several times and returning with valuable intelligence regarding the position of the Union Army.
People already did the hard part — the development of taste, the selection of what shows they like and don't like, judging the quality of the episodes, of the acting and direction — and all the computer is doing is searching through human intelligence and returning relevant results.
Consider the ROI for both a return on investment and return on intelligence.
