Not due to lack of intelligence or education but because we do not put enough emphasis on it.
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Lib Dem spokesman Ed Davey warned that despite recent positive developments there is still a lack of intelligence about Afghanistan.
But his lack of intelligence experience barely got mentioned at the hearing.
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Some job seekers and employees mistakenly think asking questions shows lack of intelligence, said Caroline Ceniza-Levine, partner at SixFigureStart, a career coaching firm.
Kit Bond, R-Missouri, the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee, also questioned Panetta's lack of intelligence experience, as did outgoing committee chairman Sen.
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It isn't a lack of intelligence that causes executives to make poor decisions, but a lack of awareness of the feelings that drive their reactions, he said.
From my vantage point, a lack of emotional intelligence is probably the top derailer of previously successful managers moving into fundamentally new and ambiguous roles.
That helps explain why the Bush Administration has chosen not to be confrontational about the Saudis' lack of help on intelligence since the Sept. 11 attacks.
By its nature, such a diffuse movement is much harder to monitor than a unitary organisation: witness the apparent lack of any advance intelligence about the Madrid plot.
That helps explain why the Bush Administration has chosen not to be confrontational about the Saudis' lack of help on intelligence, as well as closing down Islamic "charities" since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Observers noted a similar lack of preparedness in the intelligence community and Department of Justice.
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That's the subject of renewed debate on Capitol Hill, where some feel the director of national intelligence may lack the legal authority he needs.
They tend to lack the emotional intelligence, the subtlety of character to elicit the best from their people when times get tough.
It remains to be seen whether his lack of familiarity with the nuts and bolts of intelligence gathering will hinder the CIA in its job of keeping a close watch on America's enemies abroad.
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Pat Caddell is right that the Republican failure during the campaign to frame the national security issue properly - including the horrifying prospect of a Hastings chairmanship of the Intelligence Committee - is substantially responsible for the fact that there will be an acute lack of security-minded leadership in the 110th Congress.
The lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq contradicts years of intelligence indicating Saddam had such weapons, which also was the conclusion of officials in the Clinton administration.
One of the key lessons of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 was that many U.S. politicians, diplomats and intelligence officers were flying blind due to a lack of understanding of the Islamic religion and relevant cultures in the Middle East and elsewhere.
In fact, we are losing key members of our workforce to these same competitors because we lack the cultural intelligence to keep them.
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If Title VI and Fulbright-Hays are allowed to wither for lack of funding, there will be fewer culturally and linguistically fluent graduates to staff our intelligence community, our businesses and our government.
It is lack of development, and the many health problems this brings, which explains the difference in levels of intelligence.
Consequently when these men were processed by the Administrative Review Board that is charged with an annual analysis of whether an individual detainee poses a threat to America or possesses intelligence value, they were released back to U.K. custody because of lack of documented proof of their combatant status.
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