The Syrian and Iraqi cases also show that political courage and intellectual honesty are the keys to intelligence collection and analysis regarding weapons of mass destruction programs.
In times of uncertainty and change, policy-makers are particularly dependent upon effective intelligence collection and analysis, which must seek to identify threats to American security as well as opportunities to advance U.S. interests.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) sets forth procedures for the surveillance and collection of foreign intelligence information.
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That kind of military intelligence collection and analysis is an essential national security function.
The quality of the output of intelligence collection and analysis is only as good the inputs.
They require the investment of years of detailed analysis, surveillance, translations, asset development, intelligence collection and other operations.
Most new defense jobs at home turned out to be in data collection and intelligence, which required college degrees and specialized knowledge, or in the low-paying realm of airport and building security.
Brennan said he would work to improve the CIA's intelligence collection and performance across the Arab world after a spate of unanticipated unrest, from the revolts of the Arab Spring to the terror attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya.
The opposite may be closer to the truth, since the proposed reshuffling of the intelligence bureaucracies would have taken months, if not years, to carry out - and certainly would have turned some of our spy agencies' attention away from the actual collection and analysis of intelligence....If this reform is really so vital, it will get done, but better to do it in more considered fashion next year.
To this list must now evidently be included Ames' very serious compromise of U.S. human intelligence collection activities and counter-intelligence programs designed to protect American secrets from Russian spies.
And the -- with regard to this intelligence collection program, the reports that were obtained from the debriefings of these Iraq defectors were disseminated in the same way that other intelligence reporting was disseminated, contrary to one particular journalist account who suggested that the Special Plans Office became a conduit for intelligence reports from the Iraqi National Congress to the White House.
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Only America's National Security Agency is thought to have the raw computing power required to unscramble Skype packets, and its intelligence-gathering efforts are far removed from day-to-day law enforcement and the collection of evidence for prosecutions.
As I wrote last March, the company sells exploits non-exclusively to its collection of governments customers for use in intelligence and law enforcement surveillance.
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Preeminent among these was the collection of intelligence that might reveal further plots and the identity and whereabouts of those inclined to perpetrate them.
"MASINT can significantly strengthen collection against many emerging threats, and potentially become the intelligence community's most valuable source of technical intelligence in the 21st century, " it said.
Nigel West and his co-author, Oleg Tsarev, a former lieutenant colonel in Russian intelligence, have been able to use a collection of original papers and photocopies of what was, and often still is, highly classified British material and related documents.
The fashion world has also accepted her into its fold, with Vogue saying that her Spring 2013 collection shows she 'continues to grow her brand with quiet assurance and intelligence.
But we all agree that more needs to be done -- to improve the collection of intelligence, to ensure that analysis reaches senior decision-makers in a timely way, and to provide strong oversight to ensure that our intelligence activities are consistent with our democratic values and the rule of law.
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