[El Gato]

I hope real money wasn't spent on this. Most folks at Free Republic could have told them this for free.

But spending money on it, and it may not have been all that much, the intell wienies were drawing a paycheck anyway, makes it at least semiofficial, even if not (yet?) approved at the multiple levels required for an "official" result.

[VOA]

the intell wienies were drawing a paycheck anyway, makes it at least
semiofficial, even if not (yet?) approved at the multiple levels
required for an "official" result.

Yes, it's good it was gotten down on paper with a US Gov. letterhead.
Maybe this is a time when the higher-ups and in-the-office analysts
listened to some field agents when they explained "why they hate us".

[camas]

you sure got that right.
it not so much what is said but who said it that counts