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Each week, hosts Mark Polymeropolis and David Rothkov are joined by leading experts from the intelligence community for expert analysis on the biggest

security challenges around the podcast. I'm Mark Pomeroplus and this is DSR's above average

intelligence show. Today I am thrilled to welcome a very good friend of mine, Mr. Michael Weiss, a,

let's see, how can I describe you? From Queens, New York to Dartmouth College, kind of like

my journey from New Brunswick with New Jersey to Cornell, I don't know.

And now one of the, I will say it, and I'll embarrass a little bit, one of the great investigative

journalists of our time, author of a book on ISIS.

That was extremely well received, the bestseller ISIS

inside the Army of Terror, previously

at The Daily Beast.

Yahoo, your resume is very impressive. now of course you're the editor of the

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