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Skeptics were forced to reckon with an expert endorsement of the Administration's shoddy intelligence.
Mr Major said the two agencies "engaged in turf wars, failed to share information and adopted a misguided approach to sources".Aside from shoddy intelligence work, the report concluded that there are still holes in Canadian airport security, an over-reliance on technology and too many ground crews who aren't searched.
We must remember how quickly the common purpose that followed 9/11 — the flags, the memorials and candlelight vigils — quickly devolved into an environment of fear, an erosion of civil liberties and an ugly rush to invade a sovereign nation on the basis of shoddy intelligence.
Revisiting Vietnam and the images of sprightly young G.I.'s so eager to serve, one is reminded how soldiers can be led astray by reckless ideology, shoddy intelligence and liberal hubris; how small, sequential decisions necessitate and compound one another; and how our faith in our own good intentions and our ignorance of local culture can undermine our objectives.
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Both reports found instances of shoddy or unsubstantiated intelligence about Iraq's supposed illicit weapons, oversimplifications in documents released publicly before the war and clear determinations by the two intelligence communities that there had been contacts, but not operational ties, between the Baghdad government and Al Qaeda.
Mocking British intelligence and surveillance systems as "shoddy" for allowing his escape, Rumaysah dubbed Theresa May the "wicked witch of the West" and claimed another British extremist has also managed to travel to Syria.
The report found that the centers "forwarded intelligence of uneven quality — oftentimes shoddy, rarely timely, sometimes endangering citizens' civil liberties and Privacy Act protections, occasionally taken from already published public sources, and more often than not unrelated to terrorism".
This is a fine time to not that back in 2012 a Senate subcommittee concluded that these centers had cost between $289 million and $1.4 billion since 2003 and produced intelligence "of uneven quality—oftentimes shoddy, rarely timely, [and] sometimes endangering citizens' civil liberties and Privacy Act protections".
And he's probably going to have to rely on intelligence that is hardly the "slam dunk" that George Tenet reportedly called these shoddy reports on Iraq.
Shoddy defending, shoddy finishing.
Shoddy materials.
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