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In this context, I welcomed the White House’s decision to begin pruning America’s pervasive national security state. It’s a promising start.In early May, there were two announcements that sent, I suspect, a shudder through the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and triggered a predictable bout of apoplexy among their many obsequious allies in the media, wailing about how the “cutbacks” would fatally undermine America’s safety and embolden its adversaries.

Reportedly, the Trump team isto ask Congress to trim the budgets of the DEA, FBI and other Justice Department law enforcement offices by $585m in 2026.The doomsday warnings are as silly as the wind-up marionettes issuing them, since the agencies will keep much of their multibillion-dollar coffers to “fight” crime and terrorism – homegrown or otherwise.

Even the modest snipping is a welcome signal that the de rigueur annual budget increases may be over – finally.America’s G-men and women should be relieved that the cuts do not go much deeper and wider, given Trump’s belief that the FBI, in particular, was responsible for many of the tectonic legal troubles he faced before a divided Supreme Court granted presidents broad immunity from prosecution.

Despite the parochial motivation and their limited scope, the proposed cropping of the FBI’s brimming cash box is a necessary, long-overdue first step in clipping America’s bloated national security bureaucracy.

Towards that agreeable end, Trump and company alsoHe speculated, without providing evidence, that producers were aware that their products continued to be sold in Russia but turned a blind eye to the practice.

Smaller players, including individual sellers, are also involved in the supply of Apple products.Yandex.Market, where Zoya bought her Apple Watch, lists hundreds of iPhones being sold by numerous registered retailers, some of whom promise to deliver orders in as little as two hours.

Zoya bought her watch from a company called IDstore, which offers a wide variety of Apple goods, including computers, smartphones, watches and cables, for sale.IDstore was registered in November 2022 and has a single employee, according to Rusprofile, a website that aggregates data from official registries.