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This is above average intelligence, a production of the DSR network.

Each week, hosts Mark Polymerropolis and David Rothkoff 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'm very honored to welcome back as a repeat guest. I think he's been on several times perhaps the most

The most featured guest on the show over the last year, but mr. Michael Weiss an American journalist author and media commentator

he specializes in international affairs and particularly the Middle East and Russia

His resume is very extensive. He wrote a very prominent, well-received, and best-selling book in 2015.

ISIS inside the Army of Terror, he was a former investigative reporter at CNN,

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