The Covert Comic

Weekly Intelligence Briefing

(Note: Cleared readers only, please.)

Secret 180.  The fact that what goes around comes around only comes around.

●  Intelligence Community Pick-up Line of the Week.  'Enhanced interrogation' would be any interrogation by you.

●  In electromagnetism, the resistance of a conductor is directly proportional to the voltage measured across that conductor, divided by the current passing through it.  Isn't life a lot like that?

●  We don't smell things as they are, we smell them as we are.

●  Extraordinary Claims

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

Extraordinary evidence requires extraordinary research

Extraordinary research requires extraordinary funding

Extraordinary funding requires extraordinary claims

– Contact Report

Executive Intelligence Summary

Our troubles are behind us – and it looks like we're about to get lapped again.

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The time has come for the time to stop coming.

●  SpookSpeak.  Cleared adj.  1. Officially granted access to classified information.  2. Sold at a discount.  3. Removed as unwanted refuse.  4. All of the above, more or less in that sequence. – Catwalk of Spies

●  I'm trying to do a better job of juggling my work life and my juggling life.

●  Secret Scarehead of the Week: IF IT WAS EASY, 87% STILL WOULDN'T DO IT – STUDY

●  In the future, everyone will be anonymous for less than fifteen nanoseconds.

Executive Intelligence Summary

I was born free.  Looking back, I should've at least charged expenses.

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All SCIFs are sexy.  Some sex is SCIFy.

●  Secret 4591.5.1.  To confirm the feasibility of a recruitment pitch is two thirds justification for not attempting it.

●  It's not a 'rat race' – it's a timed, closed-course rodential scurrying competition.

●  You can tell a lot about a person by what they think you can tell a lot about a person by. – Catwalk of Spies

●  The smell test stinks.

Executive Intelligence Summary

Time flies – economy class.