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JHB

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2. It looks like a "We need a Big Name as a draw for our event" award.

Sat Mar 28, 2015, 12:47 PM

Mar 2015

Every winter for the past several years, the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation has held a glittering dinner around Washington attended by hundreds of top intelligence and corporate officials. The stated purpose of the event, where the cost of sponsor tables ranges from $12,000 to $100,000, is to help raise money for the spouses and children of agency operatives killed in the line of battle since the September 11, 2011 terrorist attacks. But it also serves as an annual reunion of sorts for top intelligence officials and the corporate chieftains of America’s biggest military contractors.

A fundraiser needs its "premiums", and for that kind of scratch you need a name that will bring in the target crowd.

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Shrub got an intelligence award? Sometimes the jokes write themselves. [View all] kpete Mar 2015 OP

I didn't think one could utter Lifelong Protester Mar 2015 #1

It gets worse tularetom Mar 2015 #7

And I never use this Lifelong Protester Mar 2015 #9

My husband and I are visiting a cousin of mine of in the DC area right now... 3catwoman3 Mar 2015 #11

Except it's named after his dad, not after Dubya. nt pinboy3niner Mar 2015 #15

Eeyup. The complex is named for Bush the marginally smarter. hifiguy Mar 2015 #17

Yeah, I know that but it's still funny to see the words "George Bush" and "Intelligence" tularetom Mar 2015 #18

It's named after Poppy Bush, not Shrub jmowreader Mar 2015 #19

It looks like a "We need a Big Name as a draw for our event" award. JHB Mar 2015 #2

Perhaps there is some obscure, alternative definition of "intelligence?" ailsagirl Mar 2015 #3

McLaughlin: "It wasn't for intelligence so stop saying that!" pinboy3niner Mar 2015 #4

Talking intelligence, here's Bush interviewing Bush: Brother Buzz Mar 2015 #5

Cheney's a cry-baby! demwing Mar 2015 #6

Shrub and Cheney, "manipulating Iraq WMD intelligence" demwing Mar 2015 #8

wow. for the man who catapulted wilful ignorance into something to aspire to.... NRaleighLiberal Mar 2015 #10

It reads, "For sucessfully finding your ass with both hands in your back pockets." NightWatcher Mar 2015 #12

In his mind, it's like a Noble Piece Prize... Blue Owl Mar 2015 #13

''All right, you've covered your ass, now.'' -- George W Bush to CIA briefer, August 2001. Octafish Mar 2015 #14

�totality of the eight years he was in office� Thor_MN Mar 2015 #16