This is exactly what the intelligence community has feared and planned for since the Mumbai attacks of 2008.
As was indicated, what the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers and durations of calls.
I suppose that's what the intelligence officer was responding to, in his own way.
Indeed, the whole problem stems from what the intelligence community calls "blowback," the unexpected, negative fallout from an operation.
Everything he had seen suggested that what the intelligence chiefs said about the Guardian revelations was "absolutely right", he said.
"The administration had generalized information that was reflective of what the intelligence community had gathered," he said.
What the intelligence agencies feared, however, was that among these clans of elves and goblins, terrorists were lurking.
I'm the guy on the ground that's running these operations, and I know what the intelligence says".
My administration will not talk about how we gather intelligence, if we gather intelligence and what the intelligence says.
I was trying to think of the best way to illustrate what the intelligence people are trying to do.
And that, as Eric Schmitt's Times article today makes clear, administration officials said in public what the intelligence agencies were telling them in private.
