Nothing But the Truth

6 Analyzing the Information

The discipline, the culture of how you approachinformation is what’s important.¹

—Jack Devine,author, Good Hunting: An American Spymaster’sStory, former head of CIA operations outside theUnited States

Truth gives you a critical sense of direction and focus; a deep and meaningful understanding of reality.²

—Ray Decker,former GAO director, Combating TerrorismAssessments, and retired intelligence officer

Enter the search “Why didn’t we stop 9/11?” into a search engine and you will probably get what I got: more than 22 million results. At the top of the list is an April 17, 2004 satirical piece by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times. Kristof imagines a conversation between a CIA briefer ...