Meanwhile, the Lebanese government has told the United Nations that showing any of the tape would be "unacceptable" and tantamount to providing an enemy with intelligence.
It is technically impossible to effectively attack an enemy without first obtaining actionable intelligence about the enemy.
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It would seem that the Obama administration will do whatever it takes to avoid gathering intelligence from enemy combatants these days.
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The charges include aiding the enemy, wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the Internet, transmitting national defense information and theft of public property or records.
He is being held on charges of aiding the enemy, wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the Internet, transmitting national defense information and theft of public property or records, among others.
But while individual drone strikes are a justified and often desirable tactic, they cannot fully substitute for a coherent military detention policy that provides for detaining and gathering intelligence from enemy combatants during hostilities and then trying them in a venue suitable to the wartime circumstances of their capture.
He has been charged with using unauthorised software on government computers to download classified information and to make intelligence available to "the enemy", as well as other counts related to leaking intelligence and theft of public records.
Reconnaissance is the military term for the passive collection of intelligence about an enemy prior to attacking that enemy.
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Operation Anaconda began taking shape after intelligence reports indicated enemy forces were preparing a terrorist attack against Afghanistan's interim government, said Maj.
So, if you have a spymaster who unwittingly relies on double agents feeding the CIA enemy disinformation rather than accurate intelligence, conclusions drawn from such data will be erroneous, possibly dangerously so.
Dr Spagat points out that, if their model is correct, it makes casualty data useful in a situation where intelligence about the enemy is hard to come by as seems to be the case in Iraq at the moment.
Coalition forces likewise had next to no intelligence about the enemy in Nuristan its numbers, its location, its intentions, or, most important, its capabilities which was one of the reasons the brass was pushing to build a base there.
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Reports of mistreatment of detainees led many, including Obama, to argue that the facility was not effective in dealing with alleged enemy combatants or for gathering good intelligence.
Barbero says technology is only part of the answer: troops have to be trained to get the full value of counter-IED technology, and detailed intelligence is required to attack enemy networks and finances.
The reason is as elementary as it gets: The purpose of intelligence is to see what your enemy is trying to hide, to grasp how your enemy thinks, and how he cleverly camouflages what he thinks.
His daughter is an intelligence analyst whose duties will include identifying enemy activity and potential threats.
If we are to win this war against an enemy that occupies no particular territory, we need intelligence.
Understand that we want soldiers on the front lines of battle to have the most up-to-date intelligence that's possible about the enemy that they face, the tactics that they use.
However, as Iraq has shown, our casualties are reduced exponentially as the situation improves and the local population willingly provides critical intelligence and even takes the fight to the enemy themselves.
In all, the former intelligence analysts faces 22 charges, including aiding the enemy.
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Does the President believe that if he were an enemy combatant that they'd still be able to get intelligence out of him?
It was at the forefront of the action with the Normandy landings in June 1944, again going behind enemy lines in jeeps assisting the French Resistance and providing crucial intelligence for allied forces.
The senator noted that this practice flies in the face of "thousands of years" of sound military and intelligence practice, which makes accurate characterization of the enemy a prerequisite for developing and executing strategies for his defeat.
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Of note, as the recent national intelligence estimate on Iraq explained, these gains against al Qaeda are as a result of the synergy of actions by conventional forces to deny the terrorists sanctuary, intelligence of surveillance and reconnaissance assets to find the enemy, and special operations elements to conduct targeted raids.
The purpose of the provision is both to unify POWs under a common set of guidelines but also to articulate to the enemy that our men and women in uniform will not willingly provide intelligence information.
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Intelligence services both in Britain and abroad are loth to give the enemy a clear indication of how much they know, and, especially, of how they know it.
"We deny reports published by the media of the tyrants regarding the fall of some of the headquarters of these networks into the hands of the enemy, " its statement said, according to the US-based Site Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist sites.
That al-Awlaki could be seen as just another enemy combatant was hardly clear at least, hardly clear to the Central Intelligence Agency.
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We're investing in the 21st century military and intelligence capabilities that will allow us to stay one step ahead of a nimble enemy.
The approach is fraught with risks, not least because some hard-line elements in Pakistan's military and intelligence services staunchly oppose any concessions to a country they view as an existential enemy, one that dismembered Pakistan in 1970-71 by invading to support an uprising in what is now Bangladesh.
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