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.
King highlights the impact of flawed intelligence on foreign policy failures.
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I want to understand if they're doing this again, and if so, how are they proceeding? What are the targets? Are they in fact going after people with criminal records?
We don't yet really know what happened, but to ensure that we find out what happened and that if there were actions that were unjustified, that those who committed those actions will be held accountable.
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One of your qualifications is to tell the truth to power and you will not answer reasonable questions.
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