Sentence examples for the worst intelligence from inspiring English sources

And they appear unswayed by criticisms that the terrorist attacks amount to the worst intelligence lapse since Pearl Harbor.

South Africa's government has been scrambling to deal with the fallout of the worst intelligence leak in its two-decade democratic history.

The case is described by officials as potentially the worst intelligence breach in the bureau's history, given Mr. Hanssen's access to some of the most highly classified information in the computer banks of the F.B.I.

(It also adds to the suspicion that one reason why Mr Bush kept George Tenet, the CIA's director, in his job after the worst intelligence failure since Pearl Harbour was because Mr Tenet could have pointed out that Mr Bush was no better than Mr Clinton).

The politicization of intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq War in 2003 was the worst intelligence scandal in the CIA's history, but there were no penalties for those who supported CIA director George Tenet's efforts to make phony intelligence a "slam dunk" as well as Deputy Director John McLaughlin's "slam dunk" briefing to President George Bush.

Under Mr. Tenet, the C.I.A. has been the subject of blistering critiques for what its detractors have called the two worst intelligence failures of the last 50 years: not anticipating Sept. 11 and exaggerating the threat of Iraq's unconventional weapons.

But Baker told me that option is actually the worst because intelligence officials in enemy countries would have time to catch on.

All the ads need is a voiceover: "On Sept. 11, 2001, George W. Bush presided over one of the worst failures of intelligence and security in United States history, when 15 Saudis and 4 others (not one of them from Iraq) diverted four American airliners, flying two of them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

But he isn't so ready to accept the worst prognostications, like intelligence staffers walking out en masse, as he did 30 years ago.

While the agents whom they have been handling face either long prison terms or even possible execution by their government, the worst that the foreign intelligence officers usually face is a public outing and a declaration by the opposing government that they are persona non grata, and must quickly leave.

IT IS not certain that being director of national intelligence is the worst job in Washington, DC.