Sentence examples for sloppy intelligence from inspiring English sources
What's more, guilt by association and ethnic profiling encourage sloppy intelligence gathering and impede security efforts.
In 117 separate conclusions, the committee laid the blame squarely on what it portrayed as a sloppy, dysfunctional intelligence structure headed by George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence.
With Iraq as the end point, Mr. Weiner's thesis is instead that from the 1940s on, intelligence gaffes, sloppy covert action and bootlicking in the Oval Office have kept the agency from making the kind of grandiose contributions often claimed for it and, at crucial times, have done this country damage.
Russia's GRU (the formidable military-intelligence service) must be enjoying the humiliation of their great rivals, the snooty SVR (foreign-intelligence service), whose sloppy tradecraft seems to have let a prized asset fall into the hands of the enemy.
The French intelligence people can't believe how sloppy we are".
The former director of central intelligence, John M. Deutch, is called "sloppy" by security officials and his security clearance is suspended (news article, Feb. 3).
"From a Russian intelligence point of view, it seems sloppy; it seems traceable.
The errors were not inserted as a cosmic intelligence test; they're the result of sloppy work that the authors say can't be corrected before the broadcast.
Nevertheless, it was a sloppy move by anyone's standards and beneath McChrystal's intelligence.
More plausible possibilities include a decision to embroider; incompetent or biased processing of intelligence; the eagerness of spies to please superiors; and sloppy political oversight.
