Sentence examples for the mistaken intelligence from inspiring English sources

With some relief, administration officials said the report had also found no evidence that political pressure from the White House or Pentagon contributed to the mistaken intelligence.

Inexplicably — perhaps due to mistaken intelligence regarding the Union position — General Floyd reversed course in the middle of the escape and retreated back into the surrounded trenches.

The detention of these men - presumably most of them Muslim - was illegal, and in many instances based on mistaken intelligence, but the program of abuse that they were subjected to was not.

Against a backdrop of spirited debate and boisterous dissent, Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday defended his decision to go to war in Iraq, saying that he was ready to take responsibility for his actions before the country while asserting that freedom and democracy in Iraq were more important than any mistaken intelligence.

She emphasises that people should not mistake intelligence for knowledge about an industry.

United States officials have been quoted anonymously in news reports as saying that Mr. Masri's case was one of mistaken identity; intelligence authorities may have confused him with an operative for Al Qaeda with a similar name.

"It was a beautiful mistake," the intelligence official said of the sheik's assassination by Al Qaeda.

Wasn't it possible that what others mistook for intelligence was in fact only a sort of mutation of the will?

Rice's most puzzling argument is that the administration was mistaken in releasing individual intelligence nuggets to the public, so that the case for war seemed to hang on specific assertions that were later proven wrong: the "16 words" in the State of the Union charging that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger is one example.

On Aug. 9, 1971, police officers and soldiers arrested 342 people, mostly Catholics, who were interned without charge or trial, many on the strength of outdated intelligence, mistaken identity or village gossip.

But he acknowledged that neither Rumsfeld nor Tenet could have mistaken the briefers for intelligence community spokesmen.