“Let me tell you about these intelligence guys, when
I was growing up in Texas, we had a cow named Bessie. I’d get her in the
stanchion, seat myself, and squeeze out a pail of fresh milk. One day, I’d
worked hard and gotten a full pail of milk, but I wasn’t paying attention and
old Bessie swung her shit-smeared tail through that bucket of milk. Now, you
know, that’s what these intelligence guys do. You work hard and get a good
program or policy going, and they swing a shit-smeared tail through it.”
President Lyndon Johnson is quoted as saying in
Robert M. Gates book “From the Shadows.” Source: here.
