I have read that in our Yugoslavian war campaign, the CIA nominated one and only one target during the whole thing, and it just so happened to be the Chinese embassy, and, get this, the attack was “a mistake” because they were using “old maps”.
It appears that a primary purpose of the CIA is to just flat-out lie to the US general public.
That was no accident but in the fog of war BJ was testing the Chicoms. When you think of Loral and those ‘coffees’ in the WH Clinton showed them his warrior side. Was it a dangerous gamble? I think so.
Don’t forget AlGore and the poor nuns.