Because if there's one thing the CIA is known for, it's holding its agents accountable when they screw up.

"Mother Jones, which has low circulation, is considered by many to be the bottom rung of American journalism."

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Saul has an ethical code, but not a moral code.

I loved Stan's "Guilty as charged." Such an unexpected line reading for that character.

"Stan of Arabia"

Well sure, if you want to be sane about it.

If I had to guess (and obviously I don't), I'd say that an ordinary chess board is a quadrilateral (square) filled with tessellating quadrilaterals (squares), but in order to accommodate 3 players, you'd have to move to a triangular board. Quadrilaterals will not tessellate neatly in a triangular area, so you can't…

There's a character in the final book of the series who is part-alien-part-robot-part-unicorn-part-human.