'Nothing is beyond our reach,' National Reconnaissance Office's new logo claims

The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office launched a new spy satellite Thursday evening on mission NROL-39 -- and the new logo and tagline are quite an eye opener.

The new logo features a giant, world-dominating octopus, its sucker-covered tentacles encircling the planet while it looks on with determination, a steely glint in its enormous eye. The logo carries a five-word tagline: “Nothing is beyond our reach.”

Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist and senior policy analyst with the ACLU, raised a quizzical eyebrow at the new slogan.

“Advice to @ODNIgov: You may want to downplay the massive dragnet spying thing right now. This logo isn't helping,” he wrote.

An agency spokeswoman told Forbes that there's a very good reason for the symbol: The octopus is intelligent, and therefore a good emblem for an intelligence agency.

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ChezC3 said:

'Nothing is beyond our reach,' National Reconnaissance Office's new logo claims | Fox News

I'd also like to point out that the octopus and that tagline which is what the implied symbolism of the octopus is, is used by La Cosa Nostra...

Coincidence?

Some dink watch one too many re-releases of the Godfather?

Or are these people just really that dumb...

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