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A career counterintelligence analyst warns that foreign intelligence threats are outpacing CI Community efforts to adapt.

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I asked, “what should we do, when the leaders take us to ruin?” He said, “Wait.”  — Charles Eisenstein Democracy: yearning to ...

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