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Michael Ellis became the National Security Agency’s general counsel days before Donald Trump left office, then was placed on administrative leave as President Biden took over.
Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) described the document as “a staff level draft proposal from an outside group” and said she had not read it. However, she did not deny plans to start an “America First Caucus.”
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