Stovepiping is a metaphorical term which recalls a stovepipe's function as a vertical conduit, and refers to the "piping" of raw intelligence data directly to decision makers, bypassing established procedures for review by professional intelligence analysts for validity (a process known as vetting), an important concern since the information may have been presented by a dishonest source with ulterior motives, or may be invalid for myriad other reasons.^[1] The risk inherit with stovepiping is that government policy will have been based on faulty intelligence, and thus will be without rational basis (a garbage in, garbage out scenario). This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary. ... Intelligence (abbreviated or ) is the process and the result of gathering information and analyzing it to answer questions or obtain advance warnings needed to plan for the future. ... Garbage In, Garbage Out (abbreviated to GIGO) is an aphorism in the field of computer science. ...

Stovepiping by the Bush Administration

The Office of Special Plans (OSP), created by the Bush administration, stovepiped raw intelligence related to Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq to high level Bush administration officials. Professional analysts from other departments determined that many of these reports originated with dishonest sources or were untrue for other reasons, and the process of vetting would have prevented their reaching decision makers through normal channels. This stovepiping by the OSP had the effect providing a substantial portion of the untrue allegations that formed the publicly declared justifications for the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, such as allegations of collaboration with Al Qaeda and an ongoing program of weapons of mass destruction^[2]. Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... The Bush administration includes President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Bushs Cabinet, and other select officials and advisors. ... Combatants Coalition Forces: United States United Kingdom South Korea Australia Poland Romania others. ... For the album, see Weapons of Mass Destruction (album). ...

See also

• Institutional knowledge
• System administration
• Office of Special Plans
• Stovepipe system, an unrelated computer science concept

Institutional memory comprises a range of human endeavors to assure intellectual knowledge preservation. ... A system administrator is a person responsible for running, or running some aspect of, a computer system. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... In engineering and computing, a stovepipe system is a legacy system that is an assemblage of inter-related elements that are so tightly bound together that the individual elements cannot be differentiated, upgraded or refactored. ...

References

1. ^ "The Stovepipe" — Hersh, Seymore,The New Yorker, October 27 2003 issue
2. ^ "The Stovepipe" — Hersh, Seymore,The New Yorker, October 27 2003 issue