[Ads-l] Modern Proverb: If you are not at the table, you may be on the menu. (UNCLASSIFIED)

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (USA)]

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> Garrett Graff on CNN:
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> "There's an old saying among Federal prosecutors that "If you're not at the table, you're ON the table."
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> (Jeffrey Toobin, legal analyst and former assistant U.S. Attorney, replied that he'd never heard the saying before, but he would start using it
> immediately.)
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> Google finds this version from at least 2009.
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Reminiscent of the poker adage:  "If you can't spot the sucker after ten minutes at the table, then the sucker is you." 
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