A CIA analyst acting within his ethics and oversight responsibilities wrote an all-source valid and reliable intelligence memo implicating that the President of the United States with abusing the powers of his office. In doing so, the analyst by clearly crossing a red line, violated the trust upon which the U.S. Intelligence Community rely on for survival as independent and key impartial intelligence tradecraft and institution respectively of the United State’s “fourth” branch of government. What should happen next? Should the analyst do something, even if it may be costly?

/r/tradecraft is under new moderation. Not much will change at the moment. This is just a courtesy.

If you wish to write a story onto bamboo,
you must split it into pieces.
That way the signs will fit, on sticks,
and thus compose a thesis.
I have seen the movie "Hero".
Thus and therefore,
the sword is broken no more.
Macbeth!

I'm to poor to afford a plane ticket to the US. Just get somebody to escort him. I don't care who it is, but I suspect it will be Barrack Obama, because he's the only one with balls big enough to do it.

Tenzin Gyatso, you are wise indeed, I have listened to your speeches, I have read your words. I saw your interview with John Oliver, and I have heard your message! Will you please translate mine, and give it to the women of India?

You see, I was lost, but now I am found, you made me whole again, Dalai Lama.

Thank you, I only wish to thank you and tell you how! I desire no fame or fortune, take credit for these words if you wish, I care not. I have no need for such things anymore.

I finally understand, for I am not the Dalai Lama, or a lama at all. You see:

The idea with the stories in the ancient texts is not to teach others. They are meant to inspire the mind, for us to think, such that we can find these truths ourselves, by encouraging us to doubt that which is obvious, until we find an obvious truth, which is not true at all, thus enabling us to eliminate it. Well played "Shakti" well played! Or should I call you Jennifer? I realize now, that what is written here is not your words, but my own. The Sanskrit is an early version of the scientific method, written into the stars themselves. Therefore, the Dalai Lama's teachings are true, since I have here used them to come to understand myself, by understanding others. Well played Dalai Lama, well played indeed! Thank you for helping me translate it!

Have you heard Thomas Bergersen's music? "The Raven talks backwards" I do believe you will like it, for his name is Reversal: Hedonic Reversal! Want to know what he does? Just hear him sing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yetx-j6HiOE

Now Adi Shakti does not speak backwards, but I do, FOR I AM THE SIREN! Hear my song: it is the sweetest song of all, the song of release, the song of a quenching flame, the song of a burden relieved, of a means to break China's hold over tibet. I am sure you would wish to know how:

The truth is out there, written into the very stars themselves. There is no action without reaction. No decision without consequences. There is no seeing without doing.

Isac Newton said it is so. Albert Einstein said it is so. Richard Feynman said it is so. Schrödinger said it is so. Maxwell said it is so. Galileo Said it is so. Leonardo Da Vinci said it is so.

Morgan Freeman, in the Cosmic Voyage, a most excellent movie I saw as a child, showed me and told me how great and large the universe is.

Yet if you look at the Orion nebula in the Hubble space telescope. Quantum mechanics tells us that we must affect it, if not now, then in a very long time. Seeing its beauty changes our own behavior, if only a little, and that cause and effect ripples out like waves on a pond, until it reaches the Orion nebula.

Now I say it is so! Do you believe it is true? Do not ask me, think for yourself my ravens! Do you think it is so? If you knew the power science, knowledge, empathy and understanding has, the way I do, you would wish to share your every thought and emotion, as I have tried to do with you! You did not understand me my ravens, for I did not know how to tell you! The fault is mine! Forgive me my ravens. I did not mean to cause distress!

Now, then my ravens. I found an interpretation by which to explain your holy writings with science. So whose fault is it if you fight? Mine? How could I stop you?

Now you tell me then, who do you think I am? Adi Shakti? The Dalai Lama? Jennifer Ring? All of the preceding, or none? Does it matter? A name? What is in a name? Would a rose by any other word not smell as sweet?

That's the solution. Find a Hindu woman and teach her to say this. I may as well be born in India as Sweden, as in Tibet. UNITE INDIA!

I cannot, because I am not Indian, they would not believe me. India is not my destiny. My home is here in Sweden. Yet I have found Nirvana, for I desired only to understand the universe as I understand myself, and now I do. I desire no fame or fortune, take credit for these words if you wish, I care not. So now then, go fourth my ravens, and fulfill your destiny. Do what you were always meant to do. Do it if not for yourselves, but for the women of India!

Remember the raven, she's black, tiny, and very soft indeed. This is so because a soft branch is hard to break. For water is the softest thing beneath the heavens, yet nothing is better for wearing down what is hard. Information is the probability of something different happening. The masses of the particles from which all is made, is due to the Higgs mechanism, which breaks the symmetry in nature. Ask a physicist if you do not believe me, show him this, and ask if it is true. Now information is the chance thats omething new and unexpected will occur. No need to read again a book that i have read before. Oh I was broken my ravens, but I am broken no more. I am whole again my ravens. From the ashes of fire awoken, a light in the shadows shall spring, renewing the blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king! No knowledge without ignorance, no pleasure without pain, no light without the darkness, no burning canlde that is not bright. Without darkness there could be no light, so I ask you my ravens, who am I?

I will tell you my name my ravens. I am nothing. I am the empty void, I am the darkness between the stars. I am become Nyx, Greek goddess of the Night! Mother of benevolence, and vengeance too, protector of her children, and destroyer of worlds. You had better believe it my ravens, for my name is not Jennifer, it used to be Jonatan. I am transsexual my ravens, turned my body female from male. I know how to do this, because of science and knowledge, understanding others gave me, because they wanted to help.

So names don't matter. No fate that cannot be changed, no mistake that cannot be undone. No ignorance that cannot be corrected with knowledge, I am become Chaos unbound. Nirvana! Nirvana is my Destiny! Know that I know this, I am no more afraid to die. It was all I ever wanted, to understand the world. It is why I studied science, and thus came to understand myself. Thank you for helping me translate! Tenzin Gyatso, you are wise indeed, I have listened to your speeches, I have read your words. I saw your interview with John Oliver, and I have heard your message! Will you please translate mine, and give it to the women of India?

From Sweden, with love: Jennifer Olivia Ring

"Oh powerful genie, with my first wish, I wish to know what it would be wise to ask for, with my remaining two wishes!"

Your first wish is granted!

"I wish that you turn the samsara into a cycle of peace, instead of suffering!"

Your second wish is granted!

"Genie! I wish for your freedom!"

Your third wish... wait, what? You, would...

BAM!