I want to emphasize the importance of that, because if you look back over the past 50 years, many of our foreign policy disasters were based upon skewed intelligence, based upon the desires of the policymakers, whether it was the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Iraq, whatever.
Angus King: “I want to emphasize the importance of that, because if you look back over the past 50 years, many of our foreign policy…”
On the recordOctober 16, 2017
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King highlights the impact of flawed intelligence on foreign policy failures.
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