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Weekly Intelligence Briefing

 

 

(Note: Cleared readers only, please.)

As a general rule, a general shouldn’t. – [Context and station classified]

● While the CIA is prohibited from collecting intelligence on US citizens, any intel that falls off an American onto the floor is fair game.

● Sweden. Because the world needs an emotional support country.

● Whenever I hear that someone is ‘afraid of his own shadow,’ I get scared too. What if he’s a giant monster???

● Life is too short to have more than 1/7 of a human. – Dog wisdom

Executive Intelligence Summary

We're all on our deathbed, but some of us are jumping up and down on the mattress.

                        

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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.

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

Executive Intelligence Summary

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

               

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