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Counterespionage isn't magically more competent than any other intelligence function. It seems like a pretty obvious prediction to make that because of the lackadaisy in following normal national security preventative measures in the Trump administrations, all kinds of preventable penetrations and compromise have happened in the past decade, now that we have a Congress that can investigate these. Elon reportedly calls Putin regularly. That can't be bad, right?