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CIA

Central Intelligence Agency

The unintentional release of a confidential Transportation Security Administration (TSA) document by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “outed” a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program known as Worldwide Operations Meet and Assist Program (WOMAP) less than two weeks ago.1

WOMAP is an interesting program, as it was not publicly known before the release. For example, Google showed no CIA related hits for WOMAP prior to the unintentional release.

Naturally over the past two weeks a large number of amateur and professional “investigators” have attempted to figure out what WOMAP really means.2 As would be expected in the era of Google searching, without Internet leads little new information has been forthcoming.

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Oops

Oops

The European Foundation1 has released a list of 100 reasons why climate change (formerly known as global warming) is natural and not man-made2:
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  1. It’s unclear exactly what organization this is, and the source article did not provide a link to it, though the paper describes the Foundation as “respected”
  2. As reported by Daily Express

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CIA Badge

CIA Badge

What terrorist needs an intelligence gathering operation when it has the Department of Homeland Security doing what it does best: screwing up?

This time DHS decided to post a sensitive document — apparently not classified, but sensitive — online, detailing airport screening procedures, titled “Screening Management Standard Operating Procedures“.1

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