"There is no telling how many lives this programme saved," said Chamblis, pointing to 766 cases he claimed where "sole sourced" intelligence had been extracted, including warning of terrorist attacks on Heathrow airport and London's Canary Wharf.
The director should be in control not because he is the sole creative intelligence but because only if he is in control can he liberate and utilize the talents of his co-workers, who languish (as directors do) in studio-factory productions.
This wouldn't be Huawei's sole artificial intelligence investment, either.
But Michael, the sole repository of intelligence and decency in the family; Lindsay, his dinky blonde twin sister; Lucille, his socialite mother; and his barely sentient brothers have to rub along together as best they can in the showy show house.
The sole exception was intelligence: 45 % of the respondents answered that genes are more important while 52%% favored nurture-based explanations.
He also writes that a special unit of the C.I.A. named Alec Station, which was set up in 1996 "with the sole mission of collecting intelligence" on Osama bin Laden and "disrupting his network," had an abysmal record: that "after four years and hundreds of millions of dollars," it failed "to recruit a single source within bin Laden's growing Afghanistan operation".
In matters of sex, a new orthodoxy of enlightenment and acceptance has triumphed, at least in the world of entertainment, leaving the marketplace and native intelligence as the sole, and uncertain, guides.
In his sole mention of the former intelligence contractor, Mr Obama noted drily that he would not "dwell on Mr Snowden's actions or motivations," but warned that if intelligence officials could take it into their own hands to make public what they knew, "we will not be able to keep our people safe".
A White House review this month found that no one in the government's vast intelligence system had sole responsibility for detecting and piecing together disparate threat information, telltale signs that could have prevented the man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, from boarding the plane.
According to Avicenna, with God's existence, the existence of his sole immediate effect, the first intelligence, is necessary.
