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WTF? OMG, LOL! CIA gives WikiLeaks taskforce naughty name
UK Guardian ^ | 12 22 2010 | Adam Gabbatt

Posted on 12/23/2010 11:41:34 AM PST by tutstar

The CIA has launched a taskforce to assess the impact of 250,000 leaked US diplomatic cables. Its name? WikiLeaks Task Force, or WTF for short.

The group will scour the released documents to survey damage caused by the disclosures. One of the most embarrassing revelations was that the US state department had drawn up a list of information it would like on key UN figures – it later emerged the CIA had asked for the information.

"Officially, the panel is called the WikiLeaks Task Force. But at CIA headquarters, it's mainly known by its all-too-apt acronym: WTF," the Washington Post reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


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wtf? lol ttyl

There's more acronym humor in the article. Quite funny!

1 posted on 12/23/2010 11:41:38 AM PST by tutstar
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To: tutstar

WTF?

BFD.


2 posted on 12/23/2010 11:44:10 AM PST by jessduntno ("'How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think." - Adolph Hitler)
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To: tutstar
Why The Frown?

What's so bad about that?

3 posted on 12/23/2010 11:44:30 AM PST by Drill Thrawl (The 0 admin thinks it is above the law.)
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To: tutstar

I couldn’t believe that was the actual title, so I clicked the link and sure enough, it is.

WHTMJDV


4 posted on 12/23/2010 11:45:38 AM PST by Graybeard58
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To: jessduntno

DGARA...


5 posted on 12/23/2010 11:46:00 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (I am proclaiming 2011 as the year of ME!)
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To: Drill Thrawl
I was once assigned to the

F)ast

A)ction

R)esponse

T)eam

Management never figured it out. Way too intense!

6 posted on 12/23/2010 11:47:44 AM PST by Dustoff45 (Do we really have a President? Or merely someone who pretends to be the President on TV?)
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To: tutstar

Assange is being charged with having sex without a condom in Sweden where the case is known as Dickileaks.


7 posted on 12/23/2010 11:49:47 AM PST by csmusaret (Q: How do they say incompetent failure in Kenya? A: Barack Obama)
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To: tutstar

That’s worse than

TART (Tempe Area Rapid Transit)

&

PhART (Pheonix Area Rapid Transit)


8 posted on 12/23/2010 11:49:57 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Dustoff45
I was on the...

Business
Application
Deployment
And
System
Support team

9 posted on 12/23/2010 11:51:10 AM PST by Drill Thrawl (The 0 admin thinks it is above the law.)
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To: tutstar

The world will end with a WTF.
(warning: bad language in this flash animation)
http://endofworld.net/


10 posted on 12/23/2010 11:51:18 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: tutstar

I once worked on a Leaking Underground Storage Tank project...the joke was that we all survived days and nights of LUST.


11 posted on 12/23/2010 11:51:53 AM PST by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: Nightshift

ping


12 posted on 12/23/2010 11:52:56 AM PST by tutstar
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To: Drill Thrawl

what frown?


13 posted on 12/23/2010 11:53:37 AM PST by tutstar
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To: tutstar

There were instructors at Naval Nuclear Power School who were hired just to teach there. They were not line officers. They were known as direct input limited duty officers.


14 posted on 12/23/2010 11:56:39 AM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: Graybeard58

I think everyone needs to translate their acronyms lol


15 posted on 12/23/2010 11:57:04 AM PST by tutstar
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To: tutstar

LMAO!

(Limited Mobility Assistance Office)


16 posted on 12/23/2010 11:57:10 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: tutstar
[Lt. Steven Hauk uses Army jargon to refer to a press conference to be given by former Vice-President Nixon]

Adrian Cronauer: Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P.

-- Good Morning Vietnam

17 posted on 12/23/2010 11:57:41 AM PST by Drill Thrawl (The 0 admin thinks it is above the law.)
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To: LucyT; BP2; rxsid; null and void; Candor7; melancholy

a little fun going on here, yes that’ the actual title


18 posted on 12/23/2010 11:58:10 AM PST by tutstar
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To: tutstar

Federal Unemployment Commission....

Nevermind.


19 posted on 12/23/2010 11:58:50 AM PST by NeoCaveman (Touch my tagline and I'll have you arrested)
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To: tutstar
Rush lame duck guest host Mark Steyn just did a great bit on this.
20 posted on 12/23/2010 11:58:58 AM PST by Tex-Con-Man
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