There's a big difference between a possible intelligence failure and misrepresentation of the intelligence.
And unless you get that kind of human intelligence you're going to continue to have this kind of intelligence failure.
"It just sticks in my craw every time I hear them say it's an intelligence failure, " Drumheller told CBS' Ed Bradley.
Rather than a failure to collect or share intelligence, this was a failure to connect and understand the intelligence that we already had.
But a ranking Democrat on a House intelligence subcommittee said Thursday he does not see an intelligence-sharing failure.
But what happened in Benghazi was not a failure of intelligence.
And either there was a terrible failure of intelligence or a terrible mistake on the part of the administration to gather that intelligence and make the appropriate decision.
Magsi said the blast was the result of a failure of the security and intelligence agencies in the province.
The Central Intelligence Agency, apparently stung by its failure to predict India's nuclear tests, announced that it was recruiting the largest number of new spies in its history.
This contributed to the larger failure to connect the fragments of intelligence that could have revealed the plot, Abdulmutallab's extremist views, AQAP's involvement with a Nigerian, its desire to strike the U.S. homeland.
It was a failure to connect and integrate and understand the intelligence we had.
However, it did acknowledge "that failure, by the RUC, to pass on intelligence to prison authorities in April 1997 may have contributed to the chain of events leading to the death of Billy Wright eight months later".
Porter Goss, the chairman of the House intelligence committee, this week suggested that the main problem was a failure of fact-gathering, rather than analysis.
However the bigger reason seems to be the failure of the National Counterterrorism Centre (NCTC), the intelligence-fusing body over which Mr Blair has direct oversight, to connect the dots of the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner.
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Katherine Archuleta, who leads OPM, is beginning to face heat for her agency's failure to protect key national security data -- highly prized by foreign intelligence agencies -- as well as for how slowly the agency has provided information.
And it is this failure to listen, Nasiri tells us, is what prompted him to bypass intelligence agencies and write his book.
The truth of the matter is that the Bush team can fairly be critiqued for what amounts to its failure to abandon during the administration's first few months defective counter-terrorism, intelligence and law enforcement policies inherited from the Clinton administration.
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