My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.

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For today's sit rep, I want to go ahead and jump into a skill that I use every single day.

And I'm really excited to share it with you.

A big part of why I've had to shape this information season in the order that I've

been giving it to you from cognitive bias to logical fallacy to how to hack a headline all the

way through to exactly how presidential debates are going to use logical fallacies against us

is because I've been excited to get you to the point where we start using all of these tools on a regular basis,

almost without thinking about them because that's exactly what it's like to be an intelligence officer.

You start leveraging the tools almost instinctively so that you can find the information that matters most in the least amount of time and move

forward with total confidence in the information that you have. So today what I want to do is show

you how we use all the skills that we've been learning over the last few weeks and we apply them

to a specific process I use when I look at an article. So sometimes I call this hacking an article.

Sometimes I call this dissecting an article.

Either way, what we're going to do is we're going to look at a current article in the press right now that I opened up this morning.

And we're going to read that article, not word for word.

I already read the article.

But I want to show you how I process the information in the article, how I then go on to do my own

independent research into that article, into the source content for that article, and reach

my own conclusions.

Because if there's one thing that the press, that the media, that advertisers, that politicians are not

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