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So Shane, I'm going to enlist you to help solve a mystery. Are you ready?

Uh-oh, yeah, I'm always up for a mystery.

Shane Harris reports on national security over the Washington Post.

And the mystery I was hoping he could solve. It revolved around this contradictory reporting

or read last week. First, there was an article in the New York Times. It had a simple headline.

US intelligence is helping Ukraine to kill Russian generals. Seems really straightforward,

right? Right. Mm-hmm. A day later, in the military times, Pentagon denies US intelligence is

targeting Russian generals in Ukraine. And then my favorite of these headlines is from New

York magazine. It says US admits and denies helping Ukraine kill Russian generals.

So I'm confused. Like, who's right here?

So there are three words that are doing a lot of work in these headlines. One is intelligence,

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