The larger question--the great foreign policy mistakes of my lifetime--Vietnam, Bay of Pigs, and Iraq--all were based in one way or another on bad intelligence or, more accurately, intelligence that was tailored to fit the demands of the policymakers.
King highlights past foreign policy failures linked to manipulated intelligence.
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