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Dead Drop: July 14

Dead Drop: July 14

ANALOGY GENERATOR: President Trump’s Sunday morning tweet that he and Vladimir Putin “discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking & many other negative things, will be guarded” sparked a lot of interesting analogies.  Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) said working with the Russians on cyber security was like partnering with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on a “chemical weapons unit.” Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) said it would be “akin to inviting the North Koreans to participate in a commission on non-proliferation.”   Here at The Dead Drop – we’d liken partnering with Putin with hiring O.J. Simpson to track down the real killer.  What’s your analogy?  Send it to: TheDeadDrop@TheCipherBrief.com.

Note: just 13 hours after floating his cyber trial balloon – Trump shot it down with another tweet saying that it can’t happen.  It was fun while it lasted, though.

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