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In recent years, for the first time in the history of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), a debate among scholars and some practitioners has arisen about whether intelligence analysis is, or can be, a “profession”—and by what standards analytic professionalism should be defined and judged. The dominant academic view seems to be that analysis should be, but is not, a profession, defined in ways similar to those of such recognized professions as medicine and law. More recently, a version of such thinking has emerged in the Department of Defense (DoD), with the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence (USD(I)) mandating the development of certification and accreditation standards for personnel who perform all intelligence-related job categories in all military and civilian elements of the DoD, which the department calls the Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE).
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