INTELLIGENCE CYCLE
The first stage of the intelligence cycle where decision-makers identify information needs.
What is planning and direction?
intelligence gathered from publicly available sources.
What is OSINT?
A technique used to evaluate competing explanations for an event.
What is Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH)?
The 2001 terrorist attack that transformed U.S. intelligence priorities.
What is 9/11?
The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor is considered an example of this.
What is an intelligence failure?
The stage involving gathering raw information from various sources.
What is collection?
Intelligence collected through human sources.
What is HUMINT?
Cognitive shortcuts that can distort analysis.
What are biases?
The cabinet department created in 2002 to coordinate domestic security.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
The incorrect assessment that Iraq possessed these before the 2003 invasion.
What are weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)?
The stage where collected information is evaluated and interpreted.
What is analysis?
Intelligence obtained through intercepted communications.
What is SIGINT?
The tendency to seek evidence supporting existing beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
The law that expanded surveillance authorities after 9/11.
What is the USA PATRIOT Act?
The former NSA contractor who leaked classified surveillance information in 2013.
Who is Edward Snowden?
The process of delivering finished intelligence products to policymakers.
What is dissemination?
Intelligence derived from imagery and satellite photography.
What is IMINT?
A structured technique that examines strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
What is SWOT analysis?
The intelligence agency primarily responsible for foreign intelligence collection.
What is the CIA?
The balance between security and this constitutional value is a recurring debate.
What is privacy?
The complete process used to transform information into actionable intelligence.
What is the intelligence cycle?
Intelligence gathered through measurement and signature detection.
What is MASINT?
Analysis focused on estimating future developments.
What is forecasting?
The intelligence agency responsible for signals intelligence.
What is the NSA?
A major challenge involving too much information for analysts to process effectively.
What is information overload?