Intelligence Analysis Proposal

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There has been a widely talked about need and effort to improve intelligence analysis practice based on scholarship and research. It is the job of intelligence analysts to provide policymakers in government and other fields with relevant and timely information, but not to go as far as shaping or influencing policy in any particular direction or based on any political agenda. With regards to the Intelligence Community (IC) in the United States, major reforms have taken place since the passing of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2005, signed by President George W. Bush. Improving and creating more structured analytical approaches to intelligence gathering, information processing, and intelligence sharing has been one feature of this new initiative. Another is increasing funding and resources for the Intelligence Community. Some of us recall that during the run up to the Iraq War there was much confusion, an atmosphere of concern for justifications of the invasion of Iraq in the context of a global war on terror. Many policymakers and intelligence analyst spoke publicly, in forums as high as the United Nations, about weapons of mass destruction hidden in Iraq, chemical and biological weapons, and Iraqi connections to Osama Bin Laden. Later people found …show more content…

This further complicates the idea of cybercrime in the computer age. Many FBI, CIA, and Homeland Security personnel began training for a new kind of search for criminals, the ones with messages, training and recruitment videos posted online. This is the new post 9/11 world that we live in. A new generation of intelligence analysts are being trained and readied for this new kind of task of gathering and analyzing intelligence on the ground, in cyberspace from those who are affiliated with al Qaeda and / or terrorism, and from sources inside terrorist

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