It is perhaps the case that the criminals simply got their intelligence wrong.

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Surveillance and intelligence data can be wrong, and conditions and situations on the battlefield can change.

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With only the oft-contradicted phrases of the U.S. intelligence community to prove us wrong, how could one believe anything else?

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Bad intelligence sometimes led to hitting the wrong target or securing the wrong person.

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Of course, my educated guess about how intelligence enhancement might come about could be wrong.

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Some of the intelligence community's assessments may have been wrong.

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Something is deeply wrong with the way software people have gone about artificial intelligence.

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Mr Rumsfeld misread the intelligence in the build-up to the war, and much of it was simply wrong in any case.

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