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Weekly Intelligence Briefing

 

 

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At CIA there’s no standing policy regarding the use of sex in operations. Provided it’s consensual, Agency officers are permitted to have sex standing, lying down, or in any other position they and their partner choose.

● It’s ‘local ordinance?’ Not ‘local ordnance?’

… Uh-oh.

● The best part of living in the moment: if you don’t like this moment, there’s always another one coming along in 15 or 20 years.

● Stakeholder n. An individual or group that has an active interest in obtaining a severed head.

● Say what you will about the 50 foot woman, but she definitely broke barriers.

Executive Intelligence Summary

I never joke about God. I’m opposed to punching down in comedy.

                           

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Dynamic risk assessment? I’ve seen zestier.

● If you work undercover for the National Reconnaissance Office, and someone from the public tells you about a landmark that’s so impressive it can be seen from space, I bet you answer ‘Really? Wow, that’s amazing,’ and then you try hard not to laugh.

● Meet singles near me? But at least three feet away, right?

● The problem with having nothing to prove is that you constantly have to prove it.

● Actually, now that you mention it, ESPECIALLY in this economy.

Executive Intelligence Summary

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your R&B.

 

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SpookSpeak. Shore party n. 1. (USN) The naval element of a beach operation. 2. (CIA) The navel element of same.

● What area? – When asked if the site surrounded by a fenced, patrolled perimeter was a denied area

● Anybody can demand a seat at the table. But you better be good at animating smiley faces in PowerPoint.

● Solution to the ethical dilemma of whether a self-driving car should save the lives of its passengers or the lives of pedestrians: make the tiebreaker the shortest traffic delay.

● You were only trying to be polite about my synesthesia. I smell that now.

Executive Intelligence Summary

You say ‘kiss it and make it better’ like they’re not mutually exclusive.

 

               

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