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It is a good time to be a spy in America.
There are a lot fewer people trying to break your cover.
NPR has new reporting showing a huge drop in the number of people doing counterintelligence work at the FBI.
We're going to talk about what that means and also answer a few of your midterm questions in our weekly roundup.
It's the NPR Politics Podcast.
I'm Miles Parks.
I cover voting.
I'm Ryan Lucas.
I cover the Justice Department.
And I'm Mara Lianson, Senior National Political Correspondent.
And Ryan, you have this new reporting
that I was just mentioning about this drop of counterintelligence people power at the FBI.
I want to go and start with the basics here.
Talking about what exactly counterintelligence is and why it matters.
So what I was looking at are FBI's counterintelligence squads.
These are the people who hunt, track, ferret out foreign spies in the United States trying to steal U.S.
Government secrets.