“Fredo, you're my older brother, and I love you. But don't ever take sides with anyone against the family again” — Michael Corleone
Shortly after new All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office director Jon Kosloski appeared before a Senate subcommittee, a meme popped up that referenced a scene from “The Godfather Part II.” It’s the one where Mafia capo Frank Pangateli is about to deliver damning testimony against crime boss Michael Corleone. Just before he drops the goods, however, Pangateli makes eye contact with his brother – an enforcer back in Sicily, and an unexpected guest at the hearing – sitting quietly, ominously, in the gallery. Pangateli suddenly recants his affidavit and the case against Corleone collapses into chaos.
Nothing nearly that theatrical happened last week on Capitol Hill, but with Defense Department PIO Susan Gough looming close enough to smack Kosloski upside the head should he stray into unsanctioned language, the imagery was laughably ham-fisted. And it’s fair to say that it became an instant classic only in retrospect, since most people monitoring the UFO-generated political tension likely had never seen Gough before.
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