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The NSO Group is clearly being punished for being caught. If you agree that the intelligence knew about this earlier, they could have punished them years ago and prevented basically all the intrusions found in the leaks.

And taking the most favorable view of the Biden administration on this move, "Biden punishes foreign private competitor to US intelligence agencies" wouldn't be a sign of him addressing US intelligence.

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Oh thanks for the Biden mention. I was confused by your convoluted yet harsh complaint about the US for this action, but now I see it was more of a partisan thing.

Im sure boom boom would also criticize the last President for failing to do the same thing. Mentioning a government official who belongs to a party doesnt make you a partisan for a different party. That would be a shallow dismissal of his valid point.

The person I was replying to brought up the Biden administration, I personally don't think any president in the last fifty years would have handled this differently.

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