No, I don't. The Chinese setup is that there is a Polit bureau member who is the overseer -- the senior overseer on behalf of the Polit bureau for the entirety of the Intelligence and Security apparatus of China.
Clapper expresses disbelief that President Xi would not be informed about the spy balloon incident.
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there's going to be more of the graphic, wanton brutality that they've witnessed.
I expect this report will be filled with ambiguity as well and people depending on their leanings will extract what they want out of this report.
It's inconceivable to me that the Russian intelligence services aren't aware of this, and that Putin has certainly at least acquiesced if not directed -- directing it.
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