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Did the u.s. get duped by a shadowy russian? a new report in "the new york times" claims american spies paid a russian man $100,000 after he claimed to have hacking tools stolen from the nsa, along with compromising material on president trump. this man, however, never handed over these materials. according to the paper, the american spies were not interested in the supposed dirt on trump, but they did want the stolen hacking tools back and agreed to pay this russian $1 million. at one point, the u.s. spies gave the man $100,000 in a brief case as a down payment. according to the "times" the n...