Just Call Us Curveball

The State Department: on the cutting edge of threat assessment! That is, if our inbox is to be believed…

Wonkette:

Would you be ever so kind as to send me that Hamas “spotting” you recently mentioned? Just curious.

Best,
[Redacted]

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[Redacted]
Foreign Affairs Officer – Near Eastern Affairs
U.S. Department of State
Office of Intelligence and Threat Analysis
[Redacted]
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Hey, the State Department coming to us for suspect and untrustworthy intelligence… we feel like the Vice President!

You know what this means, don’t you? The Washington Times was right. Which is almost scarier than the idea of the Office of Intelligence and Threat Analysis relying on emailed sightings of terrorists sent in to gossip blogs.

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