# All-Source Intelligence **Entity class:** Intelligence analytic practice and product class **Domain:** Intelligence analysis / counterterrorism **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **All-source intelligence** combines relevant reporting from multiple intelligence disciplines and institutional owners into an assessed picture. The term denotes synthesis across sources, not a claim that every possible source is available, equally reliable, or fully reconciled. ## Method An all-source product should retain the provenance and limitations of its components. Human reporting, signals, imagery, open sources, partner reporting, operational observations, and prior analysis can answer different parts of a problem and can also conflict. Synthesis therefore requires confidence levels, alternative hypotheses, temporal context, and a record of what remains unknown. [[wiki/Intelligence Fusion|Intelligence fusion]] is the connective process that brings reporting together; all-source intelligence is the analytic orientation or output. [[wiki/Threat Assessment|Threat assessment]] uses that output to evaluate capability, intent, indicators, trajectory, and possible harm. ## Joe Kent Rebuttal Context The live article contrasts the all-source environment of the [[wiki/National Counterterrorism Center|National Counterterrorism Center]] with the public-opinion poll used to open [[wiki/Joe Kent|Joe Kent]]'s Responsible Statecraft essay. Bryant's argument is that a sentiment measure cannot substitute for a fused strategic assessment, especially when the information environment itself may be contested. ## Evidence Boundary "All-source" does not mean omniscient, unbiased, or automatically correct. Collection gaps, partner incentives, analytic priors, classification barriers, and politicization can survive fusion. The standard is explicit provenance and calibrated judgment, not the prestige of the institution issuing the product. ## Relationships - **assembled through:** [[wiki/Intelligence Fusion|Intelligence Fusion]]. - **used by:** [[wiki/National Counterterrorism Center|National Counterterrorism Center]]. - **supports:** [[wiki/Threat Assessment|Threat Assessment]] and [[wiki/Presidential Threat Assessment|Presidential Threat Assessment]]. - **contrasted with:** single-source indicators and public-opinion polling in the source article. - **source article:** [[articles/A Direct Rebuttal to Joe Kent and to Quincy Institute's Responsible Statecraft|A Direct Rebuttal to Joe Kent and to Quincy Institute's Responsible Statecraft]].