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286. "Why would he announce that?" I incredulously ask. "Maybe he thinks it is helping his chances of success, after all he is, first and foremost, a gambler," Julie replies with equal amounts of speculation and fact. "For a company their size one would think a capable PR department would be an essential element, but this… just don't get it. Let's pass it along to Davis and Saunders and have them question their motives, if any besides the obvious, are behind it, oh and is that bug still up in Goldson's office?" "Spotty, it was for short-time use, cheap, Radio Shack junior detective grade, but I'll ask when we share the intel," Julie responds. I shake my head to clear the distractive irritant and renew my efforts in drafting the security brief for the Senator. In a diagetic moment of inspiration my creative imagination suddenly turns from the binary realm of objective government speak, to something a little more colorful; suggestive shades of private sector gray. If I can script the essence of the intel into one of the several bullet points beneath the executive summary a watchful and experienced staff editor might catch the subtle innuendo intended and strike a yellow highlighter over the inclusion to alert the final pair of eyes, the ones referred to when restricting to 'your eyes only', to its Easter Egg potential. I take a first try at it: "It has recently been confirmed that Mr. Goldson and his philanthropic partner, the wife of his predecessor and notable contributor to Republican causes, have announced the startup of a political action committee designed to augment the control and security of on-line gambling and stock market manipulation by social media gaming consortiums. The principals are scheduled to meet in St. Croix, USVI, sometime soon." I visualize an intern striking a translucent sharpie through "wife of predecessor", "Republican causes", "on-line gambling", "stock market manipulation", and "sometime soon." Not to mention the Unites States Virgin Islands.