Colin Powell: Opening Remarks on Intelligence Reform to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee

Glossary

• 1947 National Security Act the act signed by President Harry S. Truman that, among other things, established the National Security Council to oversee and coordinate U.S. intelligence gathering
• CIA the Central Intelligence Agency, the chief U.S. organization responsible for gathering overseas intelligence
• HUMINT abbreviation for human intelligence, or intelligence gathering through contact with people rather than through technology
• INR the Bureau of Intelligence Research, a component of the U.S. State Department that analyzes intelligence information
• post-mortem literally, “after death,” used here to mean “afterward,” that is, following an event or operation
• President Bush George W. Bush, the forty-third U.S. president