Sentence examples for spy community from inspiring English sources

Despte the cracks between the administration and the spy community, Kerry was careful to defended the motives of US intelligence agencies, insisting no "innocent people" were being abused and saying surveillance by several countries had prevented many terrorist plots.

It doesn't help that Mr. Penenberg and his co-author come off as such true believers in the power of competitive intelligence, the preferred term of those in the "spy community" to describe everything from faking identities to hitting the library.

And the spy community's campaign for weaker encryption standards was largely in the shadows as well, Snowden files exposed it all.

The unlikely story succeeded, and Mendez has become an author and speaker legendary in the spy community.

What may connect the Intercept's two revelations — about the spying on community leaders and the language of the document — is the way that the N.S.A. reads a name that its analysts associate with foreign lands.

The Police Department's chief spokesman, Paul J. Browne, said in an e-mail that "the N.Y.P.D. lawfully follows leads in terrorist-related investigations and does not engage in the kind of wholesale spying on communities that was falsely alleged".

"A lot of folks think we want to hire them to spy on their community, spy on their families," he said.

Residents say the group's members have shaved off their long beards and abandoned their red or black headscarves so they can mingle with, and spy upon, the community.

However the Prevent programme, which has backed the YMLN with £110,000, has drawn widespread condemnation from critics who say it is being used to spy on Muslim communities.

Sweden sentenced a Uighur man to 16 months in prison on Monday for spying on a community of Uighur refugees and passing information to China, a court document said.

But Prevent was criticised by some Muslims who said they feared it was being used to spy on their communities, and by other ethnic groups who believed they were missing out on financial support by comparison.