11.   Officials cited Israeli and CIA intelligence assessments to back up their claim.

12.   One reason the administration has wanted to move quickly with the system and the diplomacy to allow it is the intelligence assessments about the evolving missile threat.

13.   The intelligence assessment concludes that Russia is most likely hiding additional stocks of the virus at military sites.

14.   The other report is the result of a government-wide intelligence assessment of the damage done to U.S. national security by Chinese atomic espionage, according to officials.

15.   When the intelligence chief sits at the cabinet table, it is harder to keep intelligence assessments from becoming politicized.

16.   A top government official told The Associated Press the intelligence assessment said Syria still wanted a deal with Israel but was in no hurry.

17.   American intelligence assessments differ in some ways from the U.N. Special Commission that oversees inspections, which is led by Australian Richard Butler.

18.   But according to the newspaper reports, the intelligence assessment is pessimistic.

19.   But the intelligence assessment is by no means certain.

20.   But the intelligence assessment appeared pessimistic.