@CIA: Hey @VladimirPutin, we’re watching you. #LOL #YOLO (Via Shutterstock)
The Central Intelligence Agency—the nation’s only independent intelligence agency that may or may not be monitoring my phone calls—has joined Twitter.
Look out, world, because the CIA is watching what you tweet, one hashtag at a time. So, what was the CIA’s first tweet? Something cheeky, of course:
We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.
— CIA (@CIA) June 6, 2014
And, of course, everyone loved it:
Fire everyone. pic.twitter.com/Bh4qoR3KPO
— Choire (@Choire) June 6, 2014
Ha! If only the assassination of Patrice Lumumba had been this funny! RT @CIA We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.
— Daniel Radosh (@danielradosh) June 6, 2014
Sigh.