as in counterespionage
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Recent Examples of counterintelligence
The Department of Justice reassigned at least 15 senior career officials, including a top counterintelligence attorney involved in the FBI's investigation of classified documents Trump stashed at Mar-a-Lago.
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Zachary Basu, Axios, 27 Jan. 2025
Kash Patel, President Trump’s pick to lead the F.B.I., has repeatedly undercut the work of the very agency he is set to lead by making false statements related to its criminal and counterintelligence inquiries into the president.
—Charlie Savage, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
The task of military counterintelligence is to protect military infrastructure from enemy agents from within.
—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
Peter, meanwhile, is in pure self-preservation mode, lying his ass off to Javad about his cater-waiter history and denying any career in counterintelligence.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2025
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Zachary Basu, Axios, 27 Jan. 2025
Kash Patel, President Trump’s pick to lead the F.B.I., has repeatedly undercut the work of the very agency he is set to lead by making false statements related to its criminal and counterintelligence inquiries into the president.
—Charlie Savage, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
The task of military counterintelligence is to protect military infrastructure from enemy agents from within.
—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
Peter, meanwhile, is in pure self-preservation mode, lying his ass off to Javad about his cater-waiter history and denying any career in counterintelligence.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterintelligence
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China’s recent expansion of its counterespionage law to cover a much wider array of information, coupled with raids on some advisory firms and a pickup in exit bans on foreigners, has made the business environment more uncertain.—
Jami Miscik,
Foreign Affairs,
24 May 2023
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After the 9/11 attacks and the rise of Islamist terrorism, ASIO ran down its counterespionage capabilities in favor of counterterrorism.—
Clive Hamilton,
Foreign Affairs,
26 July 2018
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Iranian threat groups also deploy ransomware to raise funds and conduct espionage at the same time, while Chinese spy groups often supplement their income with cybercrime, Google said.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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His narrative starts in the 1920s, when Bolsheviks excelled in espionage by drawing on their prior experience with clandestine activities in tsarist Russia—and on the abundance of communist sympathizers in European capitals.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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But the main obstruction in that regard had been the reckless Justice Department policy of preventing intelligence agents and criminal investigators from communicating.—
Andrew C. McCarthy,
National Review,
1 Mar. 2025
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Trump said after he was asked about the potential for intelligence cooperation.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA TODAY,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Counterintelligence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterintelligence. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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