They Never Stopped Spying
Culture They Never Stopped Spying REVIEW: ‘Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin's Secret War’ by Sean M. It baldly claimed that explosive emails recovered from soon-to-be first son Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation." The emails and the rest of the contents of the laptop were, in reality, entirely authentic. So here was a partisan effort on the part of Biden supporters to lean on their résumés in an effort to discredit the damaging disclosure.
- ▪Culture They Never Stopped Spying REVIEW: ‘Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin's Secret War’ by Sean M.
- ▪It baldly claimed that explosive emails recovered from soon-to-be first son Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation." The emails and the rest of the contents of the laptop were, in re
- ▪So here was a partisan effort on the part of Biden supporters to lean on their résumés in an effort to discredit the damaging disclosure.
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Culture They Never Stopped Spying REVIEW: ‘Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin's Secret War’ by Sean M. Wiswesser Tod Lindberg July 26, 2026 image/svg+xml .st0{fill:none;stroke:#384f61;stroke-width:2;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:10;} .st1{fill:none;stroke:#384f61;stroke-width:2;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:10;} Among the bad tastes lingering in the mouths of Republicans from the 2020 election, prominent is a letter signed by 51 former senior officials within or adjacent to the U.S. intelligence community.
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