At other times he attacks key questions of the war, showing, for example, how Allied intelligence failed to "get inside Hitler's mind and think like him."

Now he was being told that his intelligence and skills had failed him.

Well, it wouldn't be the first time in military history that intelligence had failed to provide accurate and timely data.

The collected intelligence fails to specify further details of the terrorist cell, other than the name 'Rahman'.

Japanese military intelligence failed to determine the nature, location and scale of the Soviet buildup in the Far East.

Japanese intelligence had also failed to detect the scale of the Soviet buildup or the scope of the imminent offensive.

The human intelligence had failed, not the device.

On Sept. 11, "the system failed totally; the intelligence failed totally."

Courage is an admirable last resort, for when intelligence fails.

India's intelligence failed to provide warning of such a large armoured force in the western sector.