No intelligence flow is complete. The analyst’s art is inference. Anyone who ever claimed to have a completely sourced analysis is an LSOS. The heart of the Craft is inference. Only Clancies think inference is a weakness.

Smilies live on inference. When your customer demands that you source every one of your assertions, avoid laughing in his face and send in the Briefer. It’s his job to introduce reality in the dull life of a Clancy customer.