John Kiriakou

But I think the Chinese have a very long view.

It's a 5,000-year-old civilization.

I think that they are willing to look at this like the Hong Kong model.

rather than the invasion and occupation model.

It just doesn't make sense for them to do.

I think we are.

I struggle with the same things, Mark.

It's

People ask me all the time, where do you get your news?

And the answer, and I hate to say it, but is I get it everywhere because you can't trust just one or even two or even five outlets.

You have to get it from everywhere and then immerse yourself in the information to the point where you can make an educated analytic conclusion.

So I start off with, you know, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the LA Times, the Times of London, the Wall Street Journal.

my hometown paper just for the sports.

And then I go to Associated Press, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, then Al Jazeera.

I do a couple of the smaller Middle Eastern outlets.

But your hours every day just immersing yourself in the news, hoping to get bits and pieces.

I do the Jerusalem Post and Haaretz every morning.

I have subscriptions to both.

You can't trust any one outlet.

You have to trust in yourself and then trust in your ability to make that analysis make sense in your own position.