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Weekly Intelligence Briefing

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You can put a rumor to bed, but you can't keep it from jumping up and down on the mattress.

● It’s tough reading a room that’s 90% redacted. – After bombing at a National Security Agency briefing

● Corn dogs can smell corn fear.

● If humans ever learn to communicate with whales, you probably don't want to be there when female sperm whales find out what their name means.

● Director’s cut? Let’s hope it’s a major artery.

Executive Intelligence Summary

Keeping the ‘me’ out of emergency response.

● As I remotely detonated the explosives hidden in the terrorists’ van, I felt mixed emotions. On one hand, there was relief at having foiled a murderous plot; on the other hand, there was sadness in knowing I wouldn’t be able to hit the booze until after I wrote my ops report.

● I've been studying calligraphy. Not to brag, but I think I'm getting pretty good at it. For example, this sentence wasn't typed.

● How much of the concern today about artificial intelligence is legitimate, and how much is just robots trying to sound badass?

● NASA official: “We’ve been tracking the projected impact point of the Apophis near-Earth asteroid, and I’m afraid I have some bad news about your family’s farm, Mr. Patches.”

Executive Intelligence Summary

Gleek truth to power.

The problem with defectors is that most of them are defective.

● In retrospect, the CIA's rendition program was morally problematic - though as a CIA officer I stand by the quality of our in-flight movies.

● We all have our personnel demons.

● The ‘360-degree feedback’ method was first developed by the German military in the 1930’s to evaluate officer candidates, shortly after which it was successfully applied by the Allies to Germany itself.

● Being labeled is degrading and humiliating – especially when the label says ‘This Side Up.’

Executive Intelligence Summary

Female cross dressing? What woman hasn’t dressed in anger now and then?

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