This speaks to quite how unsettled a moment we find ourselves in - how many global crises are unfolding at once, even as all eyes are focused on the tragedies unfolding in the Middle East. He's a former CIA chief of station, served throughout the Middle East - 29 years at the agency. He had a piece in The Wall Street Journal, and he wrote - one rule of Middle East history is that things get worse before they get even worse. For anybody who lives in the Middle East or has lived in the Middle East, there's a surveillance aspect to society, where there's people who - their only job is - or all they do is they sit on corners and watch. KELLY: John Franchi, CIA officer of 29 years who served in posts throughout the Middle East, speaking with us on the line from New York.

Source: CNN October 25, 2023 22:00 UTC