"Let me help you do a little sleuthing, here.  Who would want to cause a rift between you and your buddy badly enough that he or she would go to all this trouble?  Why would someone want to do that SO BADLY that he or she would go to this…"

"Has anyone seen the hand-on-the-Bible thing outside of movies and publicized swearing-ins for office? I see such oaths (and affirmations) done about weekly, with never a Bible in sight. John Adams was worried about "our moral compass" as…"

"I didn't see where or when the cop 'seized' the weapon.  Did he ask for it or did he grab it from the guy's holster or hand?  If it was handed over then it isn't seizure it is reliquishment."

"Thanks for the request!"

"In the classification system we use it is harm to the United States and it's interests.  It does not take into account any damage done to a person, political or economic group, or racial group.  In the case of the AP leak it was…"

"Just as if he had found your open notebook and read the journal entry there you need to explain that although it may look like it paints him in a negative light there are more entries showing him in a positive light.  Go on to explain that that…"