The Covert Comic

Weekly Intelligence Briefing

(Note: Cleared readers only, please.)

You can't quarantine me, I have diplomatic immunology!

●  Secret 9004.  The information owner by the information shall be owned.

●  I invented myself – but my application for a patent was rejected on the grounds that my invention wasn't useful, novel or nonobvious.

●  In 1097 the pope outlawed crossbows.  Today, a mere nine centuries later, crossbow violence has been reduced by over 40%.

●  Never mistake kindness for weakness.  Kindness has been known to kill people for doing that. –Tradecraft

Executive Intelligence Summary

A slippery slope?  That's what crampons are for, my friend.

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Who can tell the range of joy, or set the bounds of beauty?  (I mean besides the US Department of Commerce's Office of Weights and Measures?)

●  Intelligence Community Dis of the Day.  Their intelligence cycle has training wheels.

●  I filled out a survey at work.  The first question was: 'Functional manager? _________________'

I wrote 'Rarely if ever.'

●  If an issue is a cause célèbre, but mostly for people who use the term 'cause célèbre,' you can safely ignore it.

●  We say 'I don't know whether I'm coming or going,' as if it were somehow possible to do only one at a time. – Tradecraft

Executive Intelligence Summary

I got your hardened structure right here.

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It's not an oxymoron, it's an oxydifferentlyabledintellect.

●  Intelligence Community Pick-up Line of the Night.  With well-coordinated operations and proper alignment of resources, I'm confident you and I can achieve a desired end state of horizontal integration.

●  Emotions are like a passing rainstorm: if you live in Southern California, you may never have to experience one.

●  'Do or do not?'  Don't we do or do not already, pretty much all the time?

●  Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me.  Fool me three times, shame on you again. – My War on Terror!

Executive Intelligence Summary

You say 'chaos theory' like there's some other kind.