{"id":43503,"date":"2014-07-13T09:28:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T15:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/13\/you-could-do-worse-than-follow-the-cia-style-book.html"},"modified":"2014-07-13T10:41:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T16:41:31","slug":"you-could-do-worse-than-follow-the-cia-style-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/13\/you-could-do-worse-than-follow-the-cia-style-book.html","title":{"rendered":"You could do worse than follow the CIA Style Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">And, after all, they&#39;ll know if you don&#39;t.\ufeff<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='overflow:hidden;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/g6EiVMsUNV7zjtQkL9P29wbagX5keXSlj1qUOGLtl3cE9n-gtm-xl37MKPEH1Rg_AxL8yb62WqZ-CjIeb_leBQfKka9v8G0=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/57743\/11-grammar-lessons-leaked-cia-style-book'>11 Grammar Lessons From the Leaked CIA Style Book<\/a><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/ZBT4auFdWxf' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And, after all, they&#39;ll know if you don&#39;t.\ufeff 11 Grammar Lessons From the Leaked CIA Style Book View this post on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11280,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/04\/tv_review_chuck.html","url_meta":{"origin":43503,"position":0},"title":"TV Review: Chuck","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Oct-07 3:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Watched the first few eps of Chuck off the DVR last night.\u00a0 Good fun, plenty of chuckles, enough bite to lend it a bit of substance, but nothing too...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;TV&quot;","block_context":{"text":"TV","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-tv"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/chuck_nbcjpg.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11843,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/the_backup_ate_my_homewor.html","url_meta":{"origin":43503,"position":1},"title":"&#8220;The backup ate my homework&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-Jan-08 7:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Color me shocked. The White House has acknowledged recycling its backup computer tapes of e-mail before October 2003, raising the possibility that many electronic messages \u2014 including those pertaining to...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics &amp; Law&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics &amp; Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/us.bc.yahoo.com\/b?P=rZ1ogNG_Rt26rZWsQnoyAAxEQ6KNn0eVUvsACoNX&T=1d9dm96vn%2fX%3d1200968443%2fE%3d83018502%2fR%3dnews%2fK%3d5%2fV%3d2.1%2fW%3dH%2fY%3dYAHOO%2fF%3d2685896074%2fH%3dY2FjaGVoaW50PSJuZXdzIiBjb250ZW50PSJXaGl0ZTtIb3VzZTtpdDtpZGVudGl0eTtzZXJ2ZXJzO2Rpc2FzdGVyIHJlY292ZXJ5O25ldHdvcms7VmljZSBQcmVzaWRlbnQ7V2FzaGluZ3RvbjtTZWN1cml0eTtJdDtJcmFxO2NyaW1pbmFsO3JlZnVybF93d3dfZ29vZ2xlX2NvbSIgcmVmdXJsPSJyZWZ1cmxfd3d3X2dvb2dsZV9jb20iIHRvcGljcz0icmVmdXJsX3d3d19nb29nbGVfY29tIg--%2fQ%3d-1%2fS%3d1%2fJ%3d7747BFD1&U=13b2uigho%2fN%3dgyftxESOxKI-%2fC%3d619213.12054947.12500278.1442997%2fD%3dLREC%2fB%3d4919452","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":48869,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/11\/the-plight-of-the-poor-innocent-cia.html","url_meta":{"origin":43503,"position":2},"title":"The plight of the poor, innocent CIA","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 11-Dec-14 4:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Michael Hayden has some funny (and remarkably self-serving) ideas about due process.'So imprisoning Muslims without charges or trial is morally defensible, as Hayden sees it, as is killing without due process, even when scores of children predictably die as \"collateral damage,\" and even when U.S. citizens are targeted in secret.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":48857,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/so-who-was-actually-doing-the-torture.html","url_meta":{"origin":43503,"position":3},"title":"So who was actually doing the torture?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 10-Dec-14 9:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently quite a few of just the sort you would expect to be involved: \"individuals who, among other issues, had engaged in inappropriate detainee interrogations, had workplace anger management issues, and had reportedly admitted to sexual assault.\"The CTC (Counter-Terrorism Center) Legal group wanted to vet all applications, but the CTC\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128182,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/28\/how-did-the-kgb-keep-spotting-cia-agents-amongst-state-department-personnel.html","url_meta":{"origin":43503,"position":4},"title":"How did the KGB keep spotting CIA agents amongst State Department personnel?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 28-Sep-15 9:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Moles penetrating the Agency? Decrypted secret messages? Turned field agents? Femmes fatale?No ... pretty much because Agency personnel within embassies were treated differently and behaved differently from real State personnel. Duh.It seems obvious, in retrospect. But it was invisible to the US government for a simple reason.'In the world of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":42112,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/20\/we-promise-not-to-do-a-criminally-stupid-thing-ever-again.html","url_meta":{"origin":43503,"position":5},"title":"&quot;We promise not to do a criminally stupid thing ever again","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 20-May-14 11:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Pinky-swear.\"Yes, someone in the CIA thought it was a really cool idea to pose as doctors doing vaccinations while collecting intel for various operations (such as nabbing Bin Ladin). Of course, they never considered that once that information became public folks who don't particularly like the US or the CIA\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43506,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43503\/revisions\/43506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}