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Michael Patrick Mulroy—”Mick” to all who know him—has been a Marine, a highly decorated CIA paramilitary officer, and a deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East in the first two years of the first Trump administration. President Trump, he said on this week’s SpyTalk podcast, is between the ol’ rock and a hard place with his four week lon… Read more

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