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Bruce Riedel is a senior fellow at Brookings Institution and a professor at Johns Hopkins University. He served in the CIA for 30 years and was a senior advisor on South Asia and the Middle East to four U.S. presidents. Speaking to BPR's Mira Mehta, Riedel gives his perspective on common American misunderstandings of Middle Eastern politics.

One of the Cold War's most secret documents, the CIA's scathing internal investigation of the 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle, has been released, and there is little wonder why the spy agency guarded it so jealously.

“China & Russia are laughing their asses off watching CIA go full woke. Cisgender. Intersectional. Its like the Babylon Bee is handling CIAs commercials. If you think about it, wokeness is the kind of twisted PSYOP a spy agency would invent to destroy a country from the inside out," Donald Trump Jr. tweeted. About China and Russia’s current intelligence agents laughing at the CIA’s Babylon-Bee-like imbecilities we can guess. But about Russia and Cuba’s we can actually watch, and perh...