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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Apr 14, 2021, 09:34 PM Apr 2021

America's top spies are coming in from the cold -- Meanwhile in America

America's top spies are coming in from the cold.

Relationships between the heads of the CIA, FBI, NSA and DIA and then-President Donald Trump were so brittle that the spooks avoided testifying in public at annual Worldwide Threats hearings in Congress last year. The problem then was that their fact-based review of national security perils clashed with the fantasy planet on which Trump lived.

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America's top spies are coming in from the cold.

The CIA symbol is shown on the floor of CIA Headquarters, July 9, 2004 in Langley, Virginia.© Mark Wilson/Getty Images The CIA symbol is shown on the floor of CIA Headquarters, July 9, 2004 in Langley, Virginia.
Relationships between the heads of the CIA, FBI, NSA and DIA and then-President Donald Trump were so brittle that the spooks avoided testifying in public at annual Worldwide Threats hearings in Congress last year. The problem then was that their fact-based review of national security perils clashed with the fantasy planet on which Trump lived.

But US espionage leaders were back in front of the cameras on Wednesday, vowing to tell the truth about what America faces — even if it upsets people. Their appearance could not be better timed, since the world is beginning to look like an increasingly dangerous place, as rivals appear to be testing the new US President.

The new Biden administration is locked in standoffs with Russia and China over Ukraine and Taiwan. A mystery attack on an Iranian nuclear plant threatens to destroy President Joe Biden's hopes of reviving a nuclear deal with Tehran. North Korea is playing missile roulette again. And Biden plans to pull all US troops from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, spurring fears of a Taliban takeover.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/america-s-top-spies-are-coming-in-from-the-cold-meanwhile-in-america/ar-BB1fEPeO

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America's top spies are coming in from the cold -- Meanwhile in America (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2021 OP
I'm not getting something msfiddlestix Apr 2021 #1

msfiddlestix

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Thu Apr 15, 2021, 12:05 AM
Apr 2021

Is this bit I excerpted below an editing error? It seems so out of context to the OP, maybe I'm dense. Who is Terrell? And what's the Minnesota mayor 's remarks got anything to do with the CIA? and the story of moral of the Spies coming in from the cold?


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