But that's the gist of two impressive reporting jobs in the Wall Street Journal recently here and here, and the topic of this week's audio commentary below.

I get that our cyber-spooks can't be on talk shows explaining how we have successfully and electronically-undressed the hidden secrets of foreign adversaries. 

Joe Biden did announce three years ago that Vladimir Putin had officially decided to invade Ukraine, which kind of gave away the fact that we had successfully penetrated Kremlin secrecy. Putin was not deterred by the revelation.

It seems like U.S. officials in recent years are far too often forced to admit publicly that foreign hackers tied to China have once again managed to enter some supposedly secret electronic caches and copy personnel files or operating procedures or other data we would rather they not have.

During the Obama administration, Chinese-affiliated hackers spent five months poking around some 20 million federal personnel files and copying the ones of interest for spy recruiting or blackmail purposes. How do these escapades go undetected for so long? 

And then, last year, China floated a balloon with an electronic eaves-dropping package the size of two school buses across the entire United States at 60,000 feet. For unexplained reasons, Biden did not order the craft shot down until it had finished the mission and transmitted everything back to Beijing.

Biden is often bragging about what good friends and travel buddies he is with China's President Xi Jinping, who has no worries about term limits. Just party power conspiracies.

Even if you missed some of the James Bond movies, Biden's purposeful inaction seems rather suspicious on its face. 

I was going to write here that I hope the new president will be more assertive in this area. Then, he announced the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard as his Director of National Intelligence. That answered my question in a most positive way. As an added benefit it has seriously annoyed mainstream media, Democrats, and the Deep State.

Speaking of a new president, this week's Sunday column dissected the clever way Donald Trump and his well-oiled team steamrolled the mainstream media's favorite opposition party to build an overwhelming victory over Kamala Harris and her Pancho sidekick.

This has been a tiring, marathon presidential campaign, the longest in U.S. history. But Team Trump's tactics and impressive success, as described here, all the way down the Republican ballots across the country provide priceless lessons and opportunities for future candidates.

An under-appreciated achievement by Trump, and subsequently his VP partner, JD Vance, is overcoming the amazing array of crap thrown at the men, starting with the Russiagate hoax manufactured by Hillary Clinton's crowd eight years ago. 

Has it really been that long since she went down in flames again?

That was what we took on in the most recent audio commentary.

Now, naturally, attention will focus on the government that Trump and Vance are assembling pending Inauguration Day on Jan. 20. The year 2025 on the Chinese calendar is the Year of the Wood Snake, which is believed to be a time of wisdom, intuition, and transformation.

May it be the same on this side of the Pacific Ocean.