Scott Ritters areas of expertise include American foreign policy, national security, arms control, the Middle East, Iran and Russia. He recently wrotethe rift between the CIA and Donald Trumpmay not be such a bad thing given that the president is pushing a policy of reconciliation with Russia that the CIA neither supports nor is equipped to effectively advise him on. In addition to his impeccable credentials, Ritter is an electrifying public speaker who is world-renowned for correctly insisting Iraq had no significant weapons of mass destruction when the Bush administration claimed otherwise. His eighth book,Deal of the Century: How Iran Blocked the Wests Road to War, will be published in June.