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This week the Bombshell crew does something different. After a crazy few days in the national security world, we break down the good, the bad, and the pop-culture remedies. From Spain to Iran, to Iraq and Lebanon, to Niger and back home to the Haspel hearings and aviation mishaps we ask ourselves: what are we doing here? Also, Arnie Hammer discovered Iran-Contra and we rank order our favorite Chrises.

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• “Spain’s ETA Basque terrorists disband,” Economist
• Richard Nephew and Ilan Goldenberg, “Here’s What to Expect Now That Trump Has Withdrawn From the Iran Nuclear Deal,” Foreign Policy
• Colin H. Kahl and Vipin Narang, “Trump thinks his North Korea strategy will work on Iran. He’s wrong on both.” Washington Post
• Armie Hammer Tweet, May 7, 2018
• Alice Hunt Friend, “The Accompany They Keep: What Niger Tells Us About Accompany Missions, Combat, and Operations Other Than War,” War on the Rocks
• Paul Szoldra, “Military Leaders Sent Them On A Hasty, Ill-Planned Mission—And Are Now Blaming Them,” Task & Purpose
• Mieke Eoyang, “The CIA Needs an Independent Thinker—Not a Gina Haspel,” Atlantic
• Sophie Gilbert, “Jack Melrose Is a Lacerating Tour de Force,” Atlantic
• Michael Barbaro, “Listen to ‘The Daily’: Gina Haspel and the Shadow of Torture,” New York Times