CIA Launches WikiLeaks Task Force, Media Responds 'WTF'

[Joanne98]

Type 'WTF' in Google search and you'll draw up all sorts of non sequitors: the World Taekwando Federation, South Park, the PSP game Work Time Fun, and, curiously, the Central Intelligence Agency.

Yesterday the CIA announced the formation of a task force to determine the impact of WikiLeaks' recent e-dump of state secrets, called the WikiLeaks Task Force, a.k.a. WTF.

"The Director asked the task force to examine whether the latest release of WikiLeaks documents might affect the agency's foreign relationships or operations. This group, which is made up of seasoned officers, will conduct a thorough review and present their findings to senior agency officials," said Jennifer Youngblood, a CIA spokesperson, in a statement.

Predictably, virtually every media outlet has focused on the coarse humor behind the acronym of the task force, which is also a very popular Internet abbreviation.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2374683,00.asp

Of course the corporate media is going to focus on the acronym. Anything else might be hard work!