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They let our man run wild at altitude with multiple legal disinhibitiors

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the only journalist qualified to interview VVP

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By the way some do just say it

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Fiona Hill has written this about Putin by the way, who VERY CLEARLY SAYS WHAT HE MEANS (when he isn't lying or whatever about a subset of things).

thebulletin.org/premium/2022...

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And it's in that ambiguity that your work as an analyst of texts or politics exist, and yet you can't make people confront the reality of it.

Mentioning this for no reason

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But strictly speaking they never said it, it was just a series of historical vignettes of enemies who need to be killed, followed by a "and these bad people today are in our way." So a dense person or savvy partisan can say "where did they say they'd massacre people?" But everyone understands it!

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One thing you realize writing political intelligence is that many people don't have an ear or feel for rhetorical logic, so you can write in a report "strong man X indicated he would massacre his political foes."

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New update on the REvil case in Russia as the trial nears its end iz.ru/1722538/miai...

Izvestia reports that Puzyrevskiy was involved with the attack on Colonial Pipeline in 2021, this is evidenced by a table with BTC transactions discovered on his computer 1/4

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Just say "Tiocfaidh" and if they finish it "ár lá" you know where from.

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[Supposedly savvy NatSec observer]: "Now, what 'Mike' Morell says..."

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It's a holiday you don't have to read or post NYT or Atlantic ragebait

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How does Roberts square his decision now with his repudiation of Korematsu, "The forcible relocation of U.S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race, is objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority"? How is it so when you can't review acts?

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Rotating the phrase "Zoomer Gladio" in the mind's eye, in awe of the power of a stay-behind network fueled by charged lemonade and high rise athletic socks

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Also, it supposed that replacement candidate is a perfect good boy or girl that won't be hit with a million bad things

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Anything is possible now under Title 50 might as well fire all the OGC and IG people at NSA, CIA, and DOJ.

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It was infuriating to know that CIA officers went along with treaty banned torture of detainees during the war on terror and the lesson now seems to be "oh don't worry this isn't even illegal, probably even kind of cool."

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It used to be quaint to tell people that the President couldn't use the IC for domestic wiretapping or infiltration operations, as was done in the 1960s-1970s, but now it appears as J. Edgar Hoover is back, baby! Make using Signal a habit.

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Not just hackers but the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation!

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"Now, we don't stock gutters or downspouts and here's why..."

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When it’s an official act, they let you do it. You can do anything.

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Dems pulling an Ahmad Massoud and convincing everyone the Lion of Delaware, the Ruby of Scranton is still alive mere days before the big event, but then announcing a new national leader after CIA parachutes in and fixes it all.

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"Every chat has that homie who summarizes everything by saying 'this is gnosticism'" (2024)

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I was eating frijoles negros y arroz for breakfast and spilled some on my Bloomberg terminal and my wife shouted from the next room "this analyst eating beans" and my toddler laughed.

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There's really only the A-12 and its large sons

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Some dudes really will stop being the god king of their city state entirely and journey the world in lament of their early fallen comrade who helped slay the bull of heaven, wandering to the ends of the earth seeking out the one immortal to find the secret of a hidden tree rather than go to therapy

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RIS if you can see this, never change. Continue using these expensive officers who generate low value intel. It's so 1937.

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Explain Iran-Contra with this One Weird Trick

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The answer here is this was an analyst and they posted from home and one day whoopsie logged in at work accidentally

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Ritter arriving on Arrakis to talk to John Clark

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"'im pretty sure X is ex-cia, Y is definitely ex-mil/int, Z is beltway/DC at minimum but they might be DoD, X’ is Brussels/NATO, Y’ is EV/finance and also here’s some other funny friends i’ve made here'" (2024)

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"Burn after Reading" is fiction because it implies bureaucrats can learn from calamitous mistakes

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Sometimes if feels like the people developing these operations don't believe in America or its ideals. This isn't saying covert action is never the answer, but the US is the richest nation with the best R&D and pharmaceutical development and sometimes it's enough to work from that high ground.

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Verb, if you have an iPhone, the Apple Watch with lockdown features makes more sense for comms because Apple has a slightly better privacy record than other companies who do not make products in that walled garden and sell to brokers. If you just want to track her an AirTag would do it.

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J'etais a la manif rassemblement nationale mangeant des fèves et quelleques sont tombées à ma chemise noire et un flic a crié, "regardez, celui mange des fèves" et tout le monde est rigolé; enfin le DGSI m'a arrêté

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