Source: Boston bomb suspect says brother was brains behind attack

[sofa king]

22. You're all wrong! I have the definition here.

As much as it amuses me to watch you fight Wikipedia with the Wikipedia of dictionaries, I feel compelled to correct you both.

According to Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage, p.76, the definition of blowback is this tortured paragraph:

Deception planted abroad by an intelligence agency to mislead people in other countries, then returning to the originating nation, where it misleads that people or even the government itself. When William Colby, the US Director of Central Intelligence, testified before the Church Committee in 1977, he admitted that the CIA disseminated information that blew back to the United States and was picked up by the media as true.

The point of my posting that definition is that it is totally obsolete, being completely replaced by the snidely-spoken dismissal, "WMDs."

The definition of "blowback" changes and has changed depending upon whom is using the term. The above definition is an analyst's term. Bemildred's definition is the operations term.

Your definition comes from a dictionary that doesn't have spycraft definitions for "honey trap," "dead drop," "disappeared," or "swallow." So you've pretty much brought a knife to a gunfight.

(Edit: and bemildred needs neither knives nor guns!)