In many of these books, all intelligence is bad intelligence, or at least seriously flawed, and no one has the moral high ground.
When Iraqis gave him bad intelligence, he detained them too.
He'd probably seen lives lost because of bad intelligence.
He was relieved of his duty after this event and several individuals responsible for bad intelligence were executed.
Intelligence - or rather bad intelligence - has become an obsession in Washington.
Were officials fooled by bad intelligence, or knowingly hyping it?
Mistakes caused by bad intelligence are harder to investigate.
We now find out that a justification for going to war in Iraq was based on bad intelligence that may have been obtained through torture.
"If it now turns out that was based on forged documents and bad intelligence, that's very disturbing."
You could blame bad intelligence for it all.