{"id":164,"date":"2014-04-20T12:24:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T19:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.usacounterterrorism.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2014-04-20T12:24:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T19:24:04","slug":"what-intelligence-cannot-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.usacounterterrorism.com\/blog\/what-intelligence-cannot-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What Intelligence Cannot Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2. <strong>what intelligence cannot do<\/strong>: Realistic expectations will<br \/>\nhelp consumers fill their intelligence needs. Intelligence, however, cannot:<br \/>\n\u2022 Predict the future. Intelligence can provide assessments of likely scenarios<br \/>\nor developments, but there is no way to predict what will happen with<br \/>\nabsolute certainty.<br \/>\n\u2022 Violate U.S. law. The activities of the Intelligence Community (IC) must be<br \/>\nconducted consistent with all applicable laws and executive orders, to include the<br \/>\nNational Security Act of 1947, as amended; the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance<br \/>\nAct; the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA); the Privacy<br \/>\nAct of 1974; the Detainee Treatment Act; Homeland Security Act of 2002, as<br \/>\namended; Executive Order 12333; and the Military Commission Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2. what intelligence cannot do: Realistic expectations will help consumers fill their intelligence needs. Intelligence, however, cannot: \u2022 Predict the future. Intelligence can provide assessments of likely scenarios or developments, but there is no way to predict what will happen &hellip; <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.usacounterterrorism.com\/blog\/what-intelligence-cannot-do\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.usacounterterrorism.com\/blog\/what-intelligence-cannot-do\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.usacounterterrorism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.usacounterterrorism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.usacounterterrorism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.usacounterterrorism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.usacounterterrorism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.usacounterterrorism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"http:\/\/www.usacounterterrorism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.usacounterterrorism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.usacounterterrorism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.usacounterterrorism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}