Editing Error (section)

==Governmental policy==
Within United States government intelligence agencies, such as [[Central Intelligence Agency]] agencies, ''error'' refers to ''intelligence error'', as previous assumptions that used to exist at a senior intelligence level within senior intelligence agencies, but has since been disproven, and is sometimes eventually listed as unclassified, and therefore more available to the [[General public|public]] and [[citizenry]] of the United States. The [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of information act]] provides American citizenry with a means to read intelligence reports that were mired in error. Per United States Central Intelligence Agency's website (as of August, 2008) intelligence error is described as:

"Intelligence errors are factual inaccuracies in analysis resulting from poor or missing data; intelligence failure is systemic organizational surprise resulting from incorrect, missing, discarded, or inadequate hypotheses."<ref>United States Central Intelligence Agency. [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/analytic-culture-in-the-u-s-intelligence-community/chapter_1.htm Analytic Culture in the U.S. Intelligence Community] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100607111923/https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/analytic-culture-in-the-u-s-intelligence-community/chapter_1.htm |date=2010-06-07 }}. Retrieved August 30, 2008.</ref>