From the article: “Individuals in our country who covertly do the bidding of foreign governments undermine our democracy,” Bill Essayli, the first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, said in a statement.

Great--when can we expect the indictment of #BenedictDonald for #TRE45ON...?

* In fairness, I suppose his defense would be that hes always been COMPLETELY OPEN ABOUT IT.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/arcadia-california-mayor-chinese-agent.html

RE: https://mastodon.social/@spythriller/116392599370226750

And now, of course, a #TRE45ON -ous administration with a VERY personal grudge against our profession has basically DROPPED A MOAB on that pipeline, by abolishing the 20 year old Intelligence Community Centers of Academic Excellence program with which my colleagues & I tried to systematize and structurally support it in the wake of 9/11. 😖