The sculpture focuses on the American intelligence community’s historic failures to predict or alert political leaders about geopolitical events facing this country since World War II. Five concentric circles of events engraved into a black granite disc trace a tale of consequential intelligence failures. Starting with Pearl Harbor in the outer circle and terminating with a group of contemporary geopolitical incidents near the center, each crisis maps over time the fraught legacy of injudicious decisions that has fostered regional instabilities, unnecessary interventions, failed wars, and near cataclysmic crises, to name a few. These orbital rings gradually tighten around a highly polished reflective sphere that mirrors back a distorted image of viewers and the world around them. Beguiled by their own bias or group-think, believers are left to wander in a wilderness of mirrors that cast an inaccurate representation of reality, promoting instead precarious or inaccurate thinking and conclusions.