Intelligence Versus Policy: Healthy Tension or Lost Cause

By: Douglas Bernhardt

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Even CI units whose deliverables repeatedly meet the necessary tests for accuracy, relevance, and timeliness are simply wasting their time if their output is not sufficiently persuasive - or worse, if it is ignored or rejected altogether by consumers who simply cannot "abide analysis or reporting that [runs] counter to their own view" (McLaughlin, 2008).  Intelligence that is not integrated into the mix of factors influencing the thinking of decision-makers represents little more than intellectual impotence.