# Terrorism Screening **Entity class:** Formal Counterterrorism Intelligence Architecture concept **Terrorism Screening** is a counterterrorism concept describing a possible social, cognitive, or behavioral process that must be distinguished from mere exposure or association. Used correctly, Terrorism Screening supports conditional inference and collection planning without promoting proximity, exposure, or model output into proof. ## Counterterrorism predictive-graph role A relationship or identity match is an evidence-bearing hypothesis with source, time, and confidence. It is not guilt by association. The analytic state should distinguish ground truth, observed evidence, inferred state, and predicted state. ## Relationships - **domain router:** [[wiki/Counterterrorism Intelligence|Counterterrorism Intelligence]]. - **ontology neighbors:** [[wiki/Data Correlation|Data Correlation]] and [[wiki/Watchlisting|Watchlisting]]. - **synthesis:** [[wiki/Counterterrorism Predictive Graph|Counterterrorism Predictive Graph]] and [[wiki/Predictive Intelligence Loop|Predictive Intelligence Loop]]. ## Sources - [NCTC — Guidelines for Access, Retention, Use, and Dissemination of United States Person Information (accessed September 23, 2026)](https://www.odni.gov/files/NCTC/documents/RelatedContent_documents/NCTCGuidelines.pdf) - [ODNI — Data Mining Report CY2021–2023](https://www.odni.gov/files/documents/CLPO/CY2021-2023_Data_Mining_Report_FINAL.pdf) **As of:** 2026-09-23