Hello, I am Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman statesman, philosopher, and orator. Over two millennia ago, I warned of a threat more insidious than any enemy at the gates. I said: “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall