BRIAN WILLIAMS: I meant trade craft.
"A series of failures, particularly in analytic trade craft, led to the mischaracterization of intelligence".
A series of failures, particularly in analytic trade craft, led to the mischaracterization of the intelligence.
Four years later, in the race against John Kerry, Schmidt and the other Bush strategists had perfected their trade craft.
Ballot objections are part of the trade craft of Chicago elections — Emanuel himself tried to boot an opponent when he ran for re-election to Congress in 2004 — but they are usually a sideshow.
To convince not only the C.I.A., but the best spy agency in the Arab world, Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate, that their agent was really working for the West showed superior trade craft.
In search of a quieter life, Joe has left his father's gangster circles behind to take up his grandfather's trade, crafting and repairing clocks and automata in a dilapidated warehouse on the Thames.
As anyone with a mobile, a laptop and a bit of cheek can be a journalist, or at least claim to be one, journalism is not a profession but a trade, craft or racket.
Information sharing (e.g., [7, 11, 12]) problems are often the consequence of a compartmentalized intelligence process, the culture within intelligence agencies and the trade craft of secret intelligence itself.
