Spies Don't Do Window Dressings: What Ratcliffe's Secret Meeting Reveals About US Russia Relations The CIA's John Ratcliffe has made headlines for his clandestine meeting with Russian intelligence officials in Moscow.
The Kremlin has spun the talks as a "positive development," but this diplomatic charade obscures the deeper issue: Russia and the US are locked in a game of cat and mouse, where each side is trying to outmaneuver the other.
Ratcliffe's failure to meet with Vladimir Putin himself speaks volumes about the state of bilateral relations.