[Ads-l] left of; left of boom

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Feb 1 22:24:37 UTC 2023


A former FBI agent is talking about "left of boom" on MSNBC right now.

JL

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 6:39 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> David Ignatius on MSNBC:
>
> "There's a phrase that's heard among counter-terrorism professionals:
> 'left of boom.' In other words, moving before the bomb goes off, before the
> devastating attack takes place. You move left of it. You intervene early."
>
> JL
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>


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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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