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Governments have long prized intelligence gleaned by spies, satellites and wiretaps. But senior intelligence officials said key findings in a new intelligence report on Iran's nuclear weapons hinged on intelligence that was hidden in plain sight — on the Web, in newspapers and in non-governmental reports.
The United States began sharing intelligence Wednesday with Turkey about positions of Kurdish rebels accused of mounting raids against Turkish positions, NTV television quoted the foreign minister as saying.
National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell said Tuesday he would resign if administration officials mischaracterized or "cherry-picked" intelligence to support their own political agenda.
U.S. intelligence agencies will release summaries of national intelligence estimates only if Americans are in direct and immediate danger, or if police and fire departments need the information, the top intelligence official says.
The man who oversaw a fake Federal Emergency Management Agency news conference is out of a job.
National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell has reversed the recent practice of declassifying and releasing summaries of national intelligence estimates, a top intelligence official said Friday.
The Senate has scrapped its bid to obtain the archive of daily intelligence briefings given to the president on Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion.
National intelligence director Mike McConnell said Tuesday that U.S. authorities are worried about "sleeper cells" of would-be terrorists inside the United States and are remaining vigilant against any new attacks.
President Bush is threatening to veto a Senate intelligence bill that's laced with provisions that would force the White House and spy agencies to be more responsive to Congress.
Vice President Dick Cheney repeated his assertions of al-Qaida links to Saddam Hussein's Iraq on Thursday as the Defense Department released a report citing more evidence that the prewar government did not cooperate with the terrorist group.
Explosives looted from Iraq munitions sites probably will continue to support terrorist attacks throughout the region, a congressional report said Thursday. It said some sites were still not secure more than 3 1/2 years after the war started.
Iran has launched a rocket capable of reaching the edge of space, according to a state television report on Sunday.
A former Pentagon official on Sunday defended his prewar assessment of a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida, calling it a much-needed critique of the CIA's intelligence on the subject.
The Bush administration is haunted by the history of intelligence blunders about Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction as the United States tries to document that Iran is providing lethal help to Iraqi fighters.
Pentagon officials undercut the intelligence community in the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq by insisting in briefings to the White House that there was a clear relationship between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida, the Defense Department's inspector general said Friday.
A much-anticipated intelligence assessment on Iraq says success depends on improving poor security, which is fueling sectarian violence, hurting the government and slowing reconstruction, a senior intelligence official told senators Tuesday.
Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi on Thursday recommended creating a House panel to closely examine U.S. spy agencies' actions and spending, a step toward adopting all the proposals of the anti-terror Sept. 11 commission.
Three Danish journalists who published classified intelligence reports on Iraq's former weapons program were acquitted Monday on charges of endangering national security.
A Border Patrol agent-turned-congressman will take over as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee next month, pledging to keep a closer eye on the nation's spy agencies and the Bush administration.
A nuclear test by North Korea could encourage Japan, Taiwan and possibly South Korea to initiate their own nuclear programs in the already unsettled region, according to a report by Republican staff on the House Intelligence Committee.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld steered clear of any judgment on a classified document that concludes the terrorist threat to the U.S. has increased, saying efforts to judge whether the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have fueled terrorism would be futile.
The White House refused Wednesday to release the rest of a secret intelligence assessment that depicts a growing terrorist threat, as the Bush administration tried to quell election-season criticism that its anti-terror policies are seriously off track.
White House release of a previously secret intelligence assessment depicting a growing terrorist threat gives both political parties new ammunition in the election-season fight over the Iraq war.
The head of Britain's domestic spy agency refused to testify on anti-terror practices before a parliamentary human rights committee, outraging lawmakers demanding to know whether the country receives intelligence gleaned from suspects tortured overseas.
Sweeping reforms to the nation's intelligence system after the 9/11 attacks have done little to improve information-sharing or generate a greater sense of urgency among U.S. intelligence agencies, a House report concluded Thursday.
"Last week, the Bush Administration released declassified extracts from a new National Intelligence Estimate about Iran's nuclear program. The passages landed in Washington like a religious scroll; they radiated revelation. The N.I.E.
President Vladimir Putin has declared a new Cold War against the West.[1] I was one of the protagonists in the old Cold War. That war was primarily carried out by spies, in spite of the media prominence given to its nuclear confrontation.
From the article: "The USSR could derive considerable military advantage from the establishment of Soviet medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Cuba, or from the establishment of a submarine base there. . . .
It seems flabbergastingly improbable that President George W.
A great clarification on what heritability means and why folks like Watson are poor representations of scientists.
Nature wishes you to breed, so sexuality has always been there. What's wrong with being intelligent and taking care of yourself? But if you are just trading ...
"Merry Christmas, Mr. President," hissed the men in cloaks as they plunged a dagger into George Bush's back.
This is a very extreme statement, but it cannot be ruled out that many factions within the US amdinistration would go to any length to avoid a confrontation with Iran, even a the price of allowing that state some nuclear weapons capability.
The driving test is every teenager's nightmare. So much seems to depend on it. It is a ticket to independence. Many people do not pass it at first try. The driving test is in many respects like a test of fitness for citizenship.
The US reversal on Iran's nuclear weapons program has exposed a breaking of ranks within a waning administration, with US intelligence and military professionals asserting themselves on issues of war and peace, analysts said.
Interventions at every age from infancy to college can reduce racial gaps in I.Q., sometimes by substantial amounts in surprisingly little time.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Governments have long prized intelligence gleaned by spies, satellites and wiretaps.
Next time you sort through your holiday photos, maybe your dog could lend a hand.
Joe Klein recently criticized the RESTORE Act ("The Tone Deaf Democrats," Nov. 21, 2007), claiming that it "would require the surveillance of every foreign-terrorist target's calls to be approved by the FISA court." This is incorrect.
Last year, Microsoft encouraged kids to connect directly to "Santa" by adding northpolelive.com to their Windows Live Messenger contact lists.
"The past century has seen massive increases in IQ test scores. Professor James Flynn, discoverer of this "Flynn effect", has endeavoured to solve the puzzle of why we're getting smarter.
It has taken me about 36 hours to digest the implications of the new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran (.pdf), but I have finally come to some preliminary conclusions.
We met at midday beneath the clock of a busy mainline railway station. I was unaware that a counter-surveillance team had already made sure that I wasn't being followed. Once the all-clear was given, I was taken to a vehicle with blacked-out windows.
Gov. Richardson released a statement re: the recent intel estimate that says Iran shelved their nuclear weapons program years ago, an assessment which differs greatly from what Bush, Cheney, and various neocons chihuahuas have yapped of late and insist on even now.
The recently-released National Intelligence Estimate shows documented evidence of administration warmongering.
IT REPRESENTS a remarkable change of opinion.
A new U.S. intelligence report says Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and it remains on hold, contradicting the Bush administration's earlier assertion that Tehran was intent on developing a bomb.
CNN just reported that US intelligence has reported to the white house that Iran stopped work on its nuclear weapons program in 2003.
Lots of sex, dark chocolate and the Scandinavian routine of cold meat for breakfast are the best ways to boost brain power, a new book claims.
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