The CIA joined Twitter on Friday, poking a little fun at itself in the process.
The agency sent out its first tweet Friday afternoon, joking that it would refuse to either confirm or deny the CIA’s first official tweet:
We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.
— CIA (@CIA) June 6, 2014
The account’s verified, though, so Twitter has assured that no one is impersonating our nation’s intelligence officials.
Talk about a slow news day.
The next tweet better be something along the lines of “We don’t follow back. We already follow you.”
Fox News: “Why is the Obama Administration letting the CIA not confirm their tweet? Since they won’t confirm their tweet, what else is the agency hiding? Is this lack of confirmation a admittance of guilt about Benghazi?”
TPM: … Twitter has assured that no one is impersonating our nation’s intelligence officials.
I remember Clinton saying that the morning CIA briefings were so uninformative that he stopped reading them more than once a week or so, because he had already read or seen most of what they told him in the news.
So the idea that Twitter can confirm what the CIA can’t is really not that surprising.
A CIA agent walks into an impoverished country. Later, the elected leader is murdered and the US immediately recognizes the new government. Haha! What a sense of humor, those crazy guys.