National Intelligence Estimate

The intelligence community received a great blow to their credibility as well as the ability to maintain trust from the general public during the pre-war estimate in 2002. The issue with the intelligence collection for the pre-war estimate had resulted from limited validated intelligence supporting the data analysis. In order to fully validate the intelligence, all-source intelligence can be utilized in order to gain insight on a particular target, and determine the information gaps that may be present. Through the use of qualitative research, the ability to determine how these determinations on the Iraqi Weapon of Mass Destruction Programs had progressed to their pre-war level. The analysis of the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate was only one part of the problem, what enabled this problem to become larger, was the lack of validated intelligence on the WMD program.
Qualitative research also enables to fully enable the research
(Troohim 2006) The dependent variables are many, with a connection to the independent variables in minutiae ways. The first dependent variable, how the intelligence was collected, is dependent on how the intelligence was collected on said targeted area of interests. What would affect the dependent variable of this, would be the direction the targeting was being guided with, especially in the use of technical intelligence collection. (Troohim 2006) The next dependent variable is, once the data was collected how was the data validated to being correct with limited fault. With this variable, the dependence lies upon on how the intelligence had viewed the data upon receipt. This would change in certain ways especially if the determination is made, that the intelligence community had negligently over estimated invalidated intelligence. (Troohim