Keep your actual and suspected traitors closer – the non-loyal, uncommitted, secretive, suspicious, dishonest, deceitful, chronically negative, and regularly undermining.
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Peter D. Banko,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
Both groups were accused of being spies, traitors and collaborators, according to the report.
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