21.   American intelligence agencies are less categorical.

22.   American intelligence agencies gathered detailed information about which countries were smuggling weapons to the Bosnians.

23.   American intelligence agencies will argue that some of the information they possess cannot be disclosed without compromising undercover agents and collection methods.

24.   American intelligence agencies, for their part, have been warning about Chinese efforts to deploy new and better nuclear missiles, perhaps with stolen American technology.

25.   American intelligence agencies, they said, have recently intercepted conversations in which suspected Qaida members spoke of plotting operations that could kill large numbers of people.

26.   An intelligence agency that knowingly misleads its own government with tainted information from the other side is about as out of control as it gets.

27.   An unholy alliance of corrupt politicians and sophisticated thieves is ripping off the world, while police and intelligence agencies seem helpless to combat it.

28.   And all along, the intelligence agency chose to study old files rather than seek new information about why its prized Soviet agents were being murdered.

29.   And, fueled by information from FBI agents working with the Israeli Mossad intelligence agency, the deportations began months ago.

30.   Another political leader went so far as to suggest that the attacks were carried out by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, in an effort to discredit Muslims.