An article about intelligence analysis from the point of view of cognitive psychology, more or less. It reminds me of the scene in Kim when he is challenged to remember the gems shown for an instant in his mentor's hand before it closes.

UPDATE: Montaigne alert!

Men of intelligence notice more things and view them more carefully, but they comment on them; and to establish and substantiate their interpretation, they cannot refrain from altering the facts a little. They never present things just as they are but twist and disguise them to conform to the point of view from which they have seen them; and to gain credence for their opinion and make it attractive, they do not mind adding something of their own, or extending and amplifying. We need either a very truthful man, or one so ignorant that he has no material with which to construct false theories and make them credible: a man wedded to no idea.

I think I will make that the motto of the other blog.