NorK n.— «Speaking of the NorK’s, it were these same talented individuals who provided President Bush with the intelligence that: despite a pact made with North Korea that we would send food and build “clean” nuclear reactors, they built a nuclear...
self-licking ice cream cone n.— «Analysts are concerned not with a policy audience, but with the readership among their peers in the intelligence community and with fulfilling their quota of reports and assessments. Despite an elaborate...
self-licking ice-cream cone n.— «However disappointing Colin Powell’s knee-jerk saluting of the commander-in-chief, at least Powell had been around and knew something of the world. (Rumsfeld, of course, is good riddance.) But what you now have...
Mutt and Jeff n.— «While interrogation instructors are currently undergoing four-hour classes, and the Army is spending millions dispatching mobile training teams to all corners of the world, those with expertise in battlefield human intelligence...
lean forward v. phr.— «We took that a step further, and now we have cooperative targeting to begin with, what we call federated targeting. So I think the intelligence community has really leaned forward to help us.» —“U.S. Senate Armed Services...
setiologist n. a person who investigates or searches for signs of extraterrestrial life. Etymological Note: Search for extraterrestrial intelligence + ologist. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
