I Need a New Cliche and I Need It Yesterday

Shit just got real

Watching The Bourne Ultimatum. Looks like like the producers might have staged a little dry-run for the WGA strike, judging from the amount of recycling going on here:

• "Our target is a British national - Simon Ross, a reporter. I want all his phones, his BlackBerry, his apartment, his car, bank accounts, credit cards, travel patterns - I want to know what he's going to think before he does. Every dirty little secret he has, and most of all we want the name and real-time location of his source. This is NSA priority level 4. Any questions?"
• "Listen, people - do you have any idea who you're dealing with? This is Jason Bourne. You are nine hours behind the toughest target you have ever tracked. Now I want everyone to sit down, strap in, and turn on all you've got. That would mean now."
• "Issue a standing kill order on Jason Bourne, effective immediately."
• "That's what makes us special. No more red tape. No more getting the bad guys caught on our sights, then watching them escape while we wait for somebody in Washington to issue the order."

Of course, the CIA is also an omnipotent mega-institution with limitless resources that can tap any phone it wants with a couple furious keystrokes; maintains seemingly hundreds of agents in London, of all places; attempts to carry out extraordinary renditions in the middle of Waterloo Station in broad daylight; assassinates foreign journalists at will; and communicates entirely in "I mean business" type cliches. Sadly, this last part is probably not far from the actual truth.