The Circus, Part I

Also unclear is why black highlighters were
chosen in the first place. Some blame it on the
closed, elite culture of the CIA itself. A former
CIA officer speaking on the condition of
anonymity said highlighting documents with black
pens was a common and universal practice.

"It seemed counterintuitive, but the higher-ups
didn't know what they were doing," the ex-officer
said. "I was once ordered to feed documents into
a copying machine in order to make backups of
some very important top-secret records, but it
turned out to be some sort of device that cut the
paper to shreds."

Bwahahaha.

"counterintuitive" = college boy word for
"stupid".

Full onion.

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