Sentence examples for the bad intelligence from inspiring English sources

9.09pm GMT No questions so far about warrantless wiretapping or the bad intelligence on Iraq.

Several protesters were ejected from the hearing for standing and shouting about the bad intelligence that led the US into the Iraq war.

The president's spokesman referred repeatedly to the bad intelligence that prompted the Iraq invasion, saying "the precedent is a significant one".

But, he wrote, Mr. Bush opted for a diplomatic approach after other advisers — still stinging over "the bad intelligence we had received about Iraq's stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction" — expressed misgivings.

The missing emails are thought to include conversations about the bad intelligence used to launch the Iraq war, the identity leak of former C.I.A. operative Valerie Plame Wilson, and various unspecified activities involving Karl Rove.

So people gathering the intelligence made mistakes, people analyzing the intelligence made mistakes, people brought the intelligence to President Bush and Vice President Cheney and they made an error of judgment because of the bad intelligence, and then a majority of the Congress went and voted for this war because they had been misled.

American spies and analysts conjured up phantom Iraqi weapons programs in 2002; the nation went to war largely on the basis of that bad intelligence.

As our outgoing president passes the buck for his failures — all that bad intelligence — so do leaders in the private and public sectors who enabled the economic debacle.

But contradictions to that "bad intelligence" were in plain sight during the run-up to the war — even sometimes in the press.

In the case of that catastrophic war, its perpetrators and enablers almost always give the same alibi: "Everyone" was misled by the same "bad intelligence" about Saddam Hussein's W.M.D. Hence, no one is to blame and no one could have prevented the rush to war.

"It's a magnificent book," Mr. Woodward said of the new volume, partly because of the analogies drawn to the war in Iraq, he said, "the lessons of bad intelligence, no plan, the disconnect between the war as seen by the fighting man and headquarters".