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Weekly Intelligence Briefing

 

 

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One way or another, the term ‘explosive ordnance disposal unit’ is always accurate. – EOD Team Leader during ops prep

SpookSpeak. Go/No-No-Go n. A meeting to determine whether to proceed with a planned action, or not to proceed with not proceeding with that action.

● If you feel something, resonate with something. – Public service announcement, Department of Homeland Empathy

● Tony Orlando, telling the bus driver not to stop: “I specifically instructed her: tie ONE yellow ribbon ‘round the old oak tree. Not two, not ten, and sure as hell not a hundred.”

● Think globally, but please stay away from my locality.

Executive Intelligence Summary

They say if you don't take control of your life, someone else will.

What they don't tell you is just how long you'll have to spend on the waiting list.

                        

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CIA officers feint at the site of blood.

SpookSpeak. Collection posture n. The configuration of assets deployed for the purpose of satisfying collection needs (if you know what I’m officially not saying).

● Instead of screaming ‘Gooooooooal,’ shouldn't soccer announcers say ‘Achieeeeeevement’?

● We traveled forty miles as the crow flies.

Which is to say my wife spent the whole time cawing.

● Most books are better than the movie, even when there’s no book.

Executive Intelligence Summary

As if the right hand knew what the right hand was doing.

    

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Recruit for the foreign head of state you want, not the foreign head of state you have.

● He died doing what he loves. – Cover eulogy for NOC officer

● A leading seller of testosterone boosters is offering a free brain supplement with each order. Is this good marketing? If the brain supplement works, how many guys will keep purchasing testosterone boosters???

● Halfway through the dictionary’s definition of ‘unreliable narrator,’ doubts start creeping in.

● The difference between free markets and neocolonialism is a matter of degree. Specifically, whether anyone’s hiring people with yours.

Executive Intelligence Summary

If the dumpster’s on fire, might as well toss in your trash.

  

               

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