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This paper describes how an over-emphasis on secrecy has historically hampered intelligence gathering, analysis and interagency cooperation in the US. The author states that the US must expand its intelligence analysis processes by widening the pool of skilled analysts by loosening regulations that discourage citizens with deep cultural and linguistic expertise from contributing to the government’s efforts to prevent future terrorist attacks. The paper explains that such a policy change will not be easy for the US government, but the alternative – missing crucial signals because the personnel who might have been able to intercept, translate and interpret them were kept out of the fight – is worse.