Chapter 6: Prediction and Prevention: The Role of Intelligence

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. What is the fundamental objective of intelligence collection?

A. convince terrorists to promote democracy

B. predict terrorist behavior and prevent attacks

C. eliminate oversight of security agencies

D. combine all security agencies into one entity

Learning Objective: 6-1: Analyze challenges inherent in the mission of the Intelligence Community.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Which federal agency performs domestic intelligence collection?

A. FBI

B. CIA

C. NASA

D. Congress

Learning Objective: 6-2: Understand the organizational alignments of the Intelligence Community.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Federal National Security Intelligence Collection

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. After the Cold War funding for intelligence gathering decreased, the number of people working in Intelligence Community (IC) agencies was ______.

A. slightly increased

B. stabilized

C. doubled

D. greatly reduced

Learning Objective: 6-2: Understand the organizational alignments of the Intelligence Community.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Evolution of the Modern Intelligence Community

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Starting in the early 1990s, the Intelligence Community (IC) focused its attention on ______ operations.

A. cybercrime

B. fundraising

C. counterterrorist

D. purely domestic

Learning Objective: 6-2: Understand the organizational alignments of the Intelligence Community.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evolution of the Modern Intelligence Community

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States is more commonly known as the ______.

A. Department of Homeland Security

B. 9/11 Commission

C. NCISP

D. HSIN

Learning Objective: 6-2: Understand the organizational alignments of the Intelligence Community.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evolution of the Modern Intelligence Community

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. The 9/11 Commission discovered structural barriers to performing joint intelligence work, as well as a lack of ______ and practices across the foreign–domestic divide.

A. agencies

B. personnel

C. technology

D. standards

Learning Objective: 6-1: Analyze challenges inherent in the mission of the Intelligence Community.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evolution of the Modern Intelligence Community

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. In December 2004, the IC was reorganized with the passage of the______.

A. Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act

B. USA PATRIOT Act

C. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

D. Homeland Security Act

Learning Objective: 6-2: Understand the organizational alignments of the Intelligence Community.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evolution of the Modern Intelligence Community

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. What two new elements were created after the IRTA was passed?

A. DHS and 9/11 Commission

B. FBI and CIA

C. ODNI and NCTC

D. USCIS and ICE

Learning Objective: 6-2: Understand the organizational alignments of the Intelligence Community.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evolution of the Modern Intelligence Community

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. The modern intelligence community functions under the authority of the ______.

A. House of Representatives

B. Executive Branch

C. Supreme Court

D. Senate

Learning Objective: 6-2: Understand the organizational alignments of the Intelligence Community.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Intelligence Community in the Post-9/11 Environment

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. The ______represents a seamless and efficient process for providing accurate information to policy makers.

A. legislative process

B. veto procedure

C. judicial process

D. intelligence cycle

Learning Objective: 6-3: Evaluate the types of intelligence and how intelligence is collected.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Intelligence Cycle

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Which phase of the intelligence cycle organizes and refines data?

A. collection

B. processing

C. dissemination

D. evaluation

Learning Objective: 6-3: Evaluate the types of intelligence and how intelligence is collected.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Phases of the Intelligence Cycle

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Which phase of the intelligence cycle involves delivering intelligence to policy makers, military leaders, and other senior government leaders?

A. collection

B. processing

C. dissemination

D. evaluation

Learning Objective: 6-3: Evaluate the types of intelligence and how intelligence is collected.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Phases of the Intelligence Cycle

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Which type of evidence collection involves using information from publicly available sources?

A. open source intelligence

B. imagery intelligence

C. measurements and signatures intelligence

D. signature intelligence

Learning Objective: 6-3: Evaluate the types of intelligence and how intelligence is collected.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Types of Intelligence Collection

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Which type of evidence collection involves using information derived from visual photography, infrared sensors, lasers, electro-optics, and radar sensors?

A. open source intelligence

B. imagery intelligence

C. measurements and signatures intelligence

D. signature intelligence

Learning Objective: 6-3: Evaluate the types of intelligence and how intelligence is collected.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Types of Evidence Collection

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. What does the National Intelligence Priorities Framework do?

A. protects confidential data regarding government employees

B. prioritizes the duties of FEMA and its state counterparts

C. finances the efforts of the CIA and FBI

D. establishes policies and responsibilities for national intelligence goals

Learning Objective: 6-4: Apply the role of intelligence collection to the context of the homeland security enterprise.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The National Intelligence Priorities Network

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. What is the mission of the ODNI?

A. lead and support the continued integration of the intelligence community

B. divide the IC into separate and autonomous agencies

C. repeal the USA PATRIOT Act and similar legislation

D. transfer its power to state and local agencies

Learning Objective: 6-5: Remember the missions of intelligence agencies.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. What is the main goal of the NSA?

A. recruit operatives who will gather human intelligence

B. collect communications and other signal intelligence

C. provide transparency about how it gathers information

D. send agents out in the field who will go undercover

Learning Objective: 6-5: Remember the missions of intelligence agencies.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: National Security Agency

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Which agency is responsible for designing, building, launching, and maintaining America’s intelligence satellites?

A. Military Intelligence Service

B. DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis

C. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

D. National Reconnaissance Office

Learning Objective: 6-5: Remember the missions of intelligence agencies.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: National Reconnaissance Office

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. Why was the National Counterterrorism Center established?

A. to replace the Department of Homeland Security

B. to integrate the counterterrorism efforts of the Intelligence Community

C. to transfer power from federal agencies to local agencies

D. to reduce the need for technology by the intelligence community

Learning Objective: 6-6: Understand the complexity of the intelligence craft and the roles of intelligence agencies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Intelligence Transformation After September 11, 2001

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. George W. Bush infamously relied on faulty intelligence when he determined that Iraq was hiding ______.

A. American POWs

B. CIA operatives

C. weapons of mass destruction

D. classified U.S. documents

Learning Objective: 6-6: Understand the complexity of the intelligence craft and the roles of intelligence agencies.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Case in Point: Intelligence Miscalculation and the Iraq Case

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. The Diplomatic Security Service is part of the U.S. Department of State and manages an international bounty program.

Learning Objective: 6-2: Understand the organizational alignments of the Intelligence Community.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Federal National Security Intelligence Collection

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. State and local law enforcement agencies have no way to share information with federal agencies.

Learning Objective: 6-2: Understand the organizational alignments of the Intelligence Community.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: State and Local Intelligence Collection

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Funding for intelligence resources increased during the Cold War.

Learning Objective: 6-2: Understand the organizational alignments of the Intelligence Community.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evolution of the Modern Intelligence Community

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. has relied less on the CIA for providing the military with intelligence and more on agencies within the Department of Defense.

Learning Objective: 6-3: Evaluate the types of intelligence and how intelligence is collected.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Evolution of the Modern Intelligence Community

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. The 9/11 Commission determined that the DCI was trying to perform too many duties.

Learning Objective: 6-1: Analyze challenges inherent in the mission of the Intelligence Community.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evolution of the Modern Intelligence Community

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. There is no overlap of jurisdiction among the 16 intelligence agencies in the United States.

Learning Objective: 6-2: Understand the organizational alignments of the Intelligence Community.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Intelligence Community in the Post 9/11 Environment

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Intelligence oversight is a shared duty of all three branches of government.

Learning Objective: 6-5: Remember the missions of intelligence agencies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Intelligence Oversight

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. The main duty of the CIA is to gather domestic intelligence.

Learning Objective: 6-5: Remember the missions of intelligence agencies.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Central Intelligence Agency

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. The Defense Intelligence Agency’s main role is to gather intelligence for the military.

Learning Objective: 6-5: Remember the missions of intelligence agencies.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defense Intelligence Agency

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Most reports of U.S. intelligence agencies conclude that they can accurately predict most terrorist attacks.

Learning Objective: 6-6: Understand the complexity of the intelligence craft and the roles of intelligence agencies.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Problems of Collection and Analysis

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. Explain how the intelligence community’s bureaucracy is effective.

Learning Objective: 6-2: Understand the organizational alignments of the Intelligence Community.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Evolution of the Modern Intelligence Community

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Discuss how the intelligence community’s bureaucracy is unwieldy.

Learning Objective: 6-2: Understand the organizational alignments of the Intelligence Community.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Evolution of the Modern Intelligence Community

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Is the intelligence community properly adaptable for countering the new form of warfare posed by modern terrorists?

Learning Objective: 6-6: Understand the complexity of the intelligence craft and the roles of intelligence agencies.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Intelligence Transformation After September 11, 2001

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. How are the missions of the intelligence agencies similar?

Learning Objective: 6-5: Remember the missions of intelligence agencies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Intelligence Agencies

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Describe and critique the process of intelligence collection.

Learning Objective: 6-3: Evaluate the types of intelligence and how intelligence is collected.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Intelligence Cycle

Difficulty Level: Hard