Rat Squads

by G. Murphy Donovan (September 2013)

Network newsies, male and female, are often a kind of corporate whistle bait.

Wolf Whistles

Galore, but much more aggressive than Kitty Whatshername.

Dog Whistles

echo over in Foggy Bottom. John Robinson, Chief of Diversity, at the US State Department has published a list of words and phrases which could be considered dog whistles. The list includes such expressions as “black and tan, going Dutch, holding down the fort, handicap, and rule of thumb” (sic). We can leave it to readers to determine what group might be offended by what. Here’s a hint; “rule of thumb” is code for wife beating.

Whistle Blowers

Rat Squads

Serpico catch a bullet (1971) in the face. Detective Serpico retired for health reasons, integrity intact – to Switzerland.

Tsarnaev brothers expects motorists to identify “nefarious characters,” Jim Clapper’s trite euphemism for Islamic terrorists. 

Internal Threat Program, supervisors and federal employees at all levels are admonished to watch and report “high risk persons or behaviors” – using arbitrary markers, none of which has ever been validated by experience or science.

Benghazi leakers at the US State Department, by all reports honest brokers, says all that needs to be said.

G. Murphy Donovan is a veteran of bureaucratic wars in four Intelligence Agencies.

 

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