When President George W. Bush launched an invasion of Iraq, claiming that the country had weapons of mass destruction and was allied with Al-Qaeda, he and his team ignored evidence from intelligence agencies that neither claim was true. Some in the intelligence agencies attributed this error to a process called:

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Groupthink is a phenomenon where a group's desire for consensus overrides its ability to critically evaluate information, resulting in flawed decision-making. In the case of the Iraq invasion, the desire for military action and the pressure to conform to the administration's beliefs may have led to groupthink in the intelligence agencies, causing them to ignore dissenting opinions and contradictory evidence.