When America and other countries started to receive intelligence reports that Pakistan was making final preparations for a nuclear test, attempts were made to persuade its government not to go ahead.

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But the best way, and final way, which is our weakest area, is from human intelligence.

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Yet in the final days and hours of the advance on Srebrenica, which American intelligence could monitor closely, Washington fell strangely silent.

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The ability to quickly react and respond to intelligence is what stopped the printer cartridge bombs from reaching their final destination.

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But many public interest groups call the final version weak, because it omitted a provision in the Senate version that would have regulated "political intelligence, " the practice of gathering information from lawmakers and Hill aides that could be used to make investment decisions.

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