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Continue to keep your mind on “review” in this short
chapter. You will still be looking at isolated movements, but
from a different angle. In some cases, I’ll take you behind
the gesture to examine intent, and in others, I’ll take you
behind the gesture to see why it “just happens,” that is, there
is no intent.
This activity is still part of what interrogators call “pas-
sive observation,” which means watching the source to col-
lect a range of useful information. “Active observation”
follows it and involves asking questions of people around the
source, similar to fellow prisoners and prison guards. It isn’t
until after those stages are complete that we move beyond
observation and into evaluation, analysis, and decisions—the
E.A.D. in R.E.A.D. Everything related to “R” is an external
process and everything related to E.A.D. reflects internal
processes.