‘Spymasters’ Depicts ‘Battle for the Soul’ of CIA in War on Terror:

Showtime’s “The Spymasters: The CIA in the Crosshairs,” debuting Nov. 28, gives a candid assessment of where the agency is at a key moment — the escalating threat of ISIS.

The documentary includes interviews with current CIA director John Brennan as well as all living former chiefs of the agency, including former President George H.W. Bush. What is apparent is that there is a new concern over intelligence gathering from this new kind of terrorism.

“No question [the terror threat] is a tremendous challenge, and a lot of the directors we talk to in ‘Spymasters’ talk of the difficulty in trying to keep track of the lone wolves, as they put it, from ISIS,” writer and executive producer Chris Whipple tells Variety‘s “PopPolitics” on SiriusXM. “And as the world now knows, these were not lone wolves, but wolves that moved in a pack and were very well coordinated. So it is a real challenge for the agency.”

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Chris Whipple says they were “startled by how revealing and candid” the CIA chiefs were.

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Chris Whipple talks about the common characteristics of the CIA chiefs, and the toll that it takes on their lives.

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Chris Whipple talks about how the CIA chiefs view the current response to ISIS, and whether it has been an underestimation to allow the terrorist organization to hold territory in Iraq and Syria.[/ezcol_1third_end]