On June 4th, Dr. Thomas Fingar, Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, spoke at the New America Foundation on public controversy surrounding recent National Intelligence Estimates and reforming the data collection and analysis processes used to generate them.
Fingar began by discussing the wide ranging process of data collection and intelligence input needed to produce a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), a procedure that can include input from as many as sixteen different government agencies. He then explained the…
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