OK: I'm already tired of "stovepipe"

[Richardo]

Enough already...I've heard that term at least two dozen times today - 10 of them from Rumsferatu in the last 10 minutes.

</9-11 Commissions Hearings rant>

[mac56]

1. What does it mean, exactly?

Never heard the phrase before today.

[Richardo]

4. I think its the new "silo"

Everybody working in their own area and unaware or not communicating with other organizations.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

5. It means circumnavigating proper communication channels

Seymour Hersh used it as the title of a NewYorker article last fall.
They created 'stovepipes' to get information back to the president, in order to build up their intelligence in a way that painted the picture to their liking- as in: Saddam = al Qaeda = 9/11.

[Junkdrawer]

6. Refers to a direct conduit from raw intelligence to decision makers,,,

bypassing the career middlemen. It was also a famous Seymour M. Hersh article.

[Richardo]

9. Ah

so it's nothing like "silo".

BTW I like "sewerpipe" better. :thumbsup:

[Mattforclark]

2. I'm tired of actionable intelligence...

[Az_lefty]

3. I got real tired of "Evil Doer"

sounded childish.

[socratesone]

7. As long as we're going to be retiring some terms...

How about:

"Weapons of mass destruction"
"liberal bias"
"axis of evil"
and
"pockets of resistance"

[BrotherBuzz]

8. Sewerpipe might be a more apt term

Cherry picking turds at the sewage treatment plant (OSP) and piping them back to Bush*.