You can dig into the files that were released over at the archives' website, but you'll have to sift through intelligence-bureau jargon, code names, and foreign languages.
But the officials said they were still sifting through intelligence reports to determine whether the attacks indeed marked an attempt by Al Qaeda to assert more influence over the Pakistani Taliban's operations.
Chastened by their failure to predict the attacks, United States officials have begun the task of sifting through previous intelligence reports to determine whether they missed any indications that an assault was imminent.
Speaking to the press after the arrest, AFC Deputy Commissioner Mike Phelan said: "We've got to examine a lot of material that was seized at the premises, sift through a lot of intelligence, we have to get the full picture so we many not know exactly where it was going to occur nor when it was exactly going to occur, but let me tell you, something was going to happen".
This means that the head of the C.I.A. -- an organization whose very purpose is to sift through data to provide intelligence to the government -- couldn't figure out his own people were lying straight to his face.
All this information is relayed to a nerve centre, or "intelligence fusion cell", where civilian and military intelligence personnel sift through the data and watch the live feeds from drones flying above.
Mr. Sporkin has built a team of more than 40 former traders, exchange experts, accountants and securities lawyers to sift through roughly 200 pieces of intelligence a day, distilling the hottest tips into a daily "intelligence report".
In an interview tonight, Mr. Wolfowitz said the members of the special intelligence team "are helping us sift through enormous amounts of incredibly valuable data that our many intelligence resources have vacuumed up".
Its mandate is to promote technology research that would let government officials sift through piles of information collected by intelligence agencies and cull useful material for identifying potential terrorists.
A32 Rumsfeld's Special Intelligence According to Pentagon officials, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and his senior advisers established a team of intelligence aides to sift through reports from the nation's spy and law enforcement agencies for information on the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
