Should such a competitive approach be pursued henceforth, the result will be to invigorate and improve the quality of formal intelligence community estimates and their usefulness to policy-makers and to help insulate such analyses from unduepoliticalinfluence aimed at eliciting a desired answer.
In stark contrast, when in 2004 I calculated an index of "legally corrupt" manifestations (measured through the extent of undueinfluence through political finance and powerful firms influencing politicians and policy making), the U.S. rated in the bottom half among the 104 countries surveyed.