Management, Integration, and Oversight of Intelligence Community Analysis

In one of his last moves as director of national intelligence before leaving for the State Department, John D. Negroponte signed off on a new and unusually detailed policy directive that sets out common principles for intelligence analysis for the nation's 16 spy agencies.

The document lays out publicly for the first time a description of what is contained in the intelligence report given to President Bush each morning, known as the president's daily briefing. The often-30-page notebook may include "assessments of emerging problems or enduring challenges, results of long-term research, NIC [National Intelligence Council] estimates, crisis developments and analysis, open source reporting as well as occasional analysis that challenges conventional wisdom on critical issues." ...

It was disclosed on the Web site of Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists' secrecy project.

The whole document can be found here:

Management, Integration, and Oversight of Intelligence Community Analysis (8 page pdf)