If you had this 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 had seen someone doing something weird or suspicious before the September 11, 2001 attack, would you have called the police? If someone had walked into a US embassy in a foreign country and said they knew someone was going to use a plane to destroy New York in two days, could that have stopped the attack? Intelligence analysis gathers raw sources of information, makes predictions based on the data, and finally publishes the results. Stéphane Lefebvre wrote that "intelligence analysis is the process of evaluating and transforming covertly acquired raw data into descriptions, explanations and judgments for political consumers." » (236). The first part involves collecting information or data from various sources, such as interrogation results, visits to U.S. embassies, and other sources received by the analyst. The process continues with verification of the reliability of the information...