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… Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the

Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new

Government… it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.

— THOMAS JEFFERSON,

The Declaration of Independence

THE OLD WOOD CABIN SAT ALONE, SURROUNDED BY TREES AND

DARKNESS. The shades were drawn, and a dog lay motionless on the front porch. A

thin stream of smoke flowed out of the chimney and headed’ west, across the rural

Maryland countryside toward Washington, D.C. Inside, a man sat silently in front of the fireplace, shoving stacks of paper into the hot flames. The papers were the product of months of tedious and meticulous work. Each sheet represented hour upon hour of surveillance notes, in-depth subject profiles, and maps of neighborhoods throughout the

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