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'Paranoia': Leaker reveals extreme tactic White House staff used to avoid Trump wiretaps
Trump Turned Federal Law Enforcement Into a Personal Counterintelligence UnitMiles Taylor’s account is useful not because it is surprising, but because it names the shape of the problem. In Trump’s orbit, staff reportedly hid phones in Faraday bags, worried about illegal surveillance, while current officials were told to surrender devices in a leak hunt run from the West Wing with FBI Director Kash Patel at the president’s request. The detail that matters is not the paranoia. It is who gets to convert paranoia into procedure.Power, Not MoodThe central fact here is institutional power. Donald…
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