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Not long ago, I found myself scrolling through Facebook and stopped on a post that stopped me cold. It was a quotation attributed to Pope Leo XIV—dramatic, emotionally charged, and the kind of thing that would make anyone on either side of the issue sit up and take notice. It was also, as far as I could tell, exactly what a lot of people wanted to hear. It was bold. It was inspiring. It was unsettling in the best possible way. My first instinct was to share it. But something made me pause. Instead of accepting it, or angrily dismissing…

It reads like the opening scene of a political thriller: a secret intelligence operation with a code name, a network of American officials placed into categories, and a battle over what the public is allowed to know before a presidential election. But this is not fiction. The Center Square reports that newly declassified documents released by the White House transparency task force have exposed a little-known FBI counterintelligence effort, code-named Round River, that operated in the shadows ahead of the 2020 election. According to those documents, the operation was part of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, and a White…

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