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fifth column

noun as in secret or subversive group

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The interview is "really quite sad," Clinton continued, because it's a sign that some Americans at this moment "are like a fifth column from Vladimir Putin."

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They have also adopted the former president's conspiratorial rhetoric about the federal bureaucracy and civil service, which is now depicted as a national fifth column.

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The decree “deals a final blow to the fifth column within the country,” he added.

“This is a fifth column!” he wrote on social media, without naming names.

To vitalize a fifth column, they would create a large network of Nazi sympathizers working against the United States from within the United States.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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