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If you had that one piece of the puzzle that would have prevented the bombings of the twin towers in New York and the Pentagon on September 11 2001 would you know it? If you saw someone do something weird or suspicious before the attack on September 11 2001, would you have called the police? If someone had walked into a United States Embassy in a foreign country and said that they know someone was going to use a plane to destroy New York in two days, could this have stopped the attack? Intelligence Analysis puts the raw sources of information together, make predictions based on the data, and finally publish the results.

Stephane Lefebvre wrote that “ intelligence analysis is the process of evaluating and

transforming raw data acquired covertly into descriptions, explanations, and judgments for policy consumers” (236). The first part is gathering information or data from a variety of sources such as results from interrogations, walk ins to United States Embassies and other sources the analyst receives. The process continues with verifying the reliability of the information...

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