The initial intelligence failure was followed four months later by another one.

最初的情报失误之后4个月，又发生另一次情报失误。

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"Rather than a failure to collect or share intelligence," he said, "this was a failure to connect and understand the intelligence that we already had."

VOA: special.2010.01.09

It speaks I would say for failure on the part of intelligence agencies."

VOA: standard.2010.01.09

There's a big difference between a possible intelligence failure and misrepresentation of the intelligence.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

And unless you get that kind of human intelligence you're going to continue to have this kind of intelligence failure.

BBC

"It just sticks in my craw every time I hear them say it's an intelligence failure, " Drumheller told CBS' Ed Bradley.

CNN: Ex-CIA official: WMD evidence ignored