Bernie's Secret Sevice code name revealed

[cali]

Intrepid

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/269072-sanderss-secret-service-code-name-revealed

[beam me up scottie]

1. Nice.

characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance

[restorefreedom]

2. for real?

very fitting.

[arendt]

3. Great! I love it. But, cue the conspiracy theorists...

"A Man called Intrepid" - William Stevenson, the WW2 British spy chief.

Or does no one under the age of 40 even make the connection?

[Electric Monk]

7. First thing that came to mind for me as well

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82022.A_Man_Called_Intrepid

[arendt]

8. You must be over 40 :-) n/t

[Kurovski]

13. I thought of the ship.

http://search.aol.com/aol/image?q=ship+intrepid&v_t=enus-mh-1_-hp-ws-cn-dt-le&s_chn=prt_hp-desktop&s_it=searchtabs

[beam me up scottie]

9. I immediately thought of Intrepid class starships.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Intrepid_class

[arendt]

11. Aye, Commander Scuuut, you would think that. It would be logical.

[beam me up scottie]

15. ...

[arendt]

22. No offense meant

I had to look up the slang meaning of a standalone "...".

Or, was it a humorous ... ?

Darn these intertubes.

[beam me up scottie]

23. Oh, none taken! I just needed a reason to post my Spock smiley.

Live long and prosper.

[arendt]

24. LOL! /nt

[Bluenorthwest]

20. Star Trek at the USS Intrepid...just to pull it all together.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum welcomes the new exhibition Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience to Pier 86 this summer. The Museum will be the first venue in the United States to host this first-of-its-kind, immersive “Trek Tech” experience, spanning 10,000 square feet.

http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/Startrek

[beam me up scottie]

21. Wow, that is so cool!

Become a cadet and join the Starfleet Academy’s Career Day in the 26th century. After student orientation, cadets visit nine zones focusing on the Academy’s special training in language, medicine, engineering, navigation, command and science. Once training is completed, cadets graduate from the Starfleet Academy and receive their commissioning posts.

Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience will feature interactive activities and unique technology, including Leap Motion, table projections, projection mapping and holograms.

[Jim Lane]

34. On a complete tangent, did you ever visit the Star Trek experience at the old Las Vegas Hilton?

I got to see the actual flight jacket that Zefram Cochrane wore during that historic first warp flight. (They had it on a stand in a glass case.)

There was much more to the exhibit, and it was all very well done. The highlight was a ride in a Federation shuttlecraft as it engaged hostile Klingons in a dogfight over the Las Vegas Strip.

[beam me up scottie]

36. I never made it out to Vegas.

Sounds like a blast, I'm still grieving Leonard Nimoy. The world just isn't the same without Spock.

[aidbo]

27. An Intrepid class starship is much cooler than a Dodge Intrepid

Cab-forward!

[beam me up scottie]

29. Lol! No argument here!

[Mnpaul]

33. I have the Hallmark ornament

Picked up that one and the original Enterprise for $2 each. I sold the original on ebay for $80 and kept the other. I rigged up a cord so you don't need a string of lights to use it.

[beam me up scottie]

35. I just looked it up and that's an awsome ornament.

It's selling for over $100 on eBay.

[longship]

10. Great book!

That's when the UK opened the books on Bletchley Park and the Enigma during WWII. Read it shortly after it was released in paper back.

BTW, a great read.

[arendt]

16. I think the Enigma story pushed the old cloak and dagger stuff into...

the background. The Enigma story was simpler and had no downside.

But, the spies had a high likelihood of being tortured and killed. In WW2, spying was necessary but still "ungentlemanly". After WW2, it became a cancer on democracy; and, despite the James Bond glorification of spying, it is a "Hall of Mirrors" in which people sooner or later lose their moral compass.

But, the thousands of veterans who kept the Intrepid/Enigma secrets for 25 years - we are all in their debt.

[Bluenorthwest]

17. The USS Interpid is the key feature of The Interpid Sea, Air and Space Musem in NYC

and that's what I thought of. It is a class of ships and even of our starship dreams.

Launched in 1943, the former aircraft carrier USS Intrepid fought in World War II, surviving five kamikaze attacks and one torpedo strike. The ship later served in the Cold War and the Vietnam War. Intrepid also served as a NASA recovery vessel in the 1960s. It was decommissioned in 1974, and today is berthed on the Hudson River as the centerpiece of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.
http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/The-Intrepid-Experience/Exhibits.aspx

I highly recommend a visit.

[arendt]

19. Never got there. Moved away. Sorry I missed it. n/t

[Bjornsdotter]

28. That was my first thought! n/t

[Hortensis]

37. Well over 40, and I didn't. I think it suits

him well enough. He has a way of barging and dashing around energetically that makes me imagine the SS having to keep on its toes watching him, not just everyone else.

I like "Evergreen" for Hillary too. It suits.

[Qutzupalotl]

4. Some secret.

[cali]

6. Evergreen

[Arugula Latte]

25. ...

[cyberswede]

31. eep

[Hortensis]

38. It's all about the mean.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. The SS got that right.

[Bluenorthwest]

18. Well chosen, this makes me happy.

nt

[Kalidurga]

26. That's good, I think they like him.

[bvf]

30. Love it.

Probably close to impossible to come up with anything 100% impervious to some negative twist..

[Jim Lane]

32. Why does the Secret Service even USE code names, if they get publicly revealed?

Doesn't that defeat the purpose?

I've idly wondered about this for years, whenever I read a story about a Secret Service code name.