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Slack.com slash DHQ. Our anonymous sources, who are even more anonymous than other people's

anonymous sources, have given the daily wire a bombshell revelation about Russia. You

can tell it's a bombshell because it has the word bombshell written in front of it in

all capital letters. For those of you who want professional journalists like myself, a

bombshell is a technical journalism term, meaning an unfounded rumor that would have

no impact on your life, even if it were true, which it probably isn't. Where was I? Oh

yeah, a bombshell about Russia from incredibly anonymous sources in a story that could

be ripped from the pages of the television show The Americans if television shows had

pages and we ripped them. It now seems clear that Vladimir Putin and the Russians had an

agent planted at the very highest levels of American government. This agent, or mole,

as they're called in technical tradecraft lingo from John Likarei novels, is referred to in

secret documents only by his Russian name of Barack Nakhafo-Bomsky, thus making it virtually

impossible to hunt down this malicious sleeper agent who so enabled Putin while undermining

US defenses. According to these top secret documents, which we know are real because our

anonymous sources read them to us over the phone. The mole, Obomsky, was able to manipulate

American policy in the following ways. He conspired with Putin puppet Dmitry Medvedyev

to weaken American defenses in Europe while simultaneously defunding our military. He

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