The period that followed wasn’t perfect, according to this history: We elevated hollow intelligence in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, leaned into the use of torture and expanded the drone war without too much concern for the collateral damage to civilians. But these scandals were typically metabolized by the public as morality tales about the failures of elite leadership — Colin Powell overselling Iraq’s W.M.D. program at the U.N., for instance, or John Yoo drafting legal justification for torture authorized by the Office of Leg
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