Marc Polymeropoulos retired from the CIA’s Senior Intelligence Service in 2019 after a 26 year career where he served in a variety of operational and leadership assignments in the Middle East as well as at CIA headquarters. He is a MSNBC national security contributor, a non resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a member of the Cipher Brief expert cadre, and the author of “Clarity in Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the CIA,” published by Harper Collins.