ABSTRACT
The analyst as author and the policymaker as reader are engaged in a reiterative process of mimesis that shapes the way a policy community views a set of issues through the linguistic medium of intelligence. Relationships among subjects are observed in their natural context and then recreated in the more stylized context of the analytical product, with a series of events forming a coherent storyline and a level of discourse added by way of analytical judgments. Authorial intervention is inherent throughout, from the selection of data points to the use of emotive descriptors to the framing of the narrative as a whole.
