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New in SpyWeek: Biden’s FBI Probed Bolton, Tulsi Purge Exposed Top CIA Russia Expert

New in SpyWeek: Biden’s FBI Probed Bolton, Tulsi Purge Exposed Top CIA Russia Expert

Gabbard hires RFK Jr. daughter-in-law to “modernize” U.S. intelligence, plus other nuggets from the week in spy world

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Rampage: The Trump-Gabbard campaign to whittle down U.S. spy agencies to a pencil nub continued this week by naming and shaming 37 intelligence professionals by publicly stripping their security clearances, rendering them fired without warning (or cause) and probably short-circuiting any future employment as expert consultants to their former employers. Among them: An undercover senior CIA officer who briefed Trump in advance of his Aug. 15 Alaska Summit with Vladimir Putin.

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