The super-secret division in charge of the Russia investigation

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*-+By Scott Glover, Pamela Brown and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/10/politics/counterintelligence-division-fbi-spy-catchers/index.html?adkey=bn

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But to those tasked with getting to the bottom of the allegations and innuendo, it's just another "standard counterintelligence investigation," as one highly placed US official put it. Add to that the freshly assigned task of determining how a huge cache of what appear to be authentic CIA documents ended up on the WikiLeaks website.

Welcome to the super-secret world of the Counterintelligence Division, home to the spy catchers of the FBI.

It's a shadowy world that's closed off even to those typically in the know in bureau headquarters, a silo of secrecy in which agents are valued as much for their ability to keep quiet as they are for their investigative skills.

"They keep that (stuff) locked down tight," one veteran FBI agent said.

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1. Is that what will save Democracy?

Or destroy it?

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2. Cause democracy just happens and is never attacked

by the outside. You live in a bubble because of the spycatchers. We all do in the West.