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Trump Says He Supports Russia-US Cybersecurity ‘Unit.’ His Team Echoes Him. Then He Rejects It.

Joshua Yasmeh

On Sunday, President Trump logged onto to Twitter to tell the world that he used part of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Germany to discuss the possibility of forming a joint U.S.-Russia “cyber security unit.” Presumably, the “unit” would involve intelligence-sharing between the CIA, NSA and other American intelligence services and the GRU and FSB, the intelligence arms of the Kremlin.

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