"A giant squid sucking the face off of North America" ~Jon Stewart

     The logo was widely lampooned as emblematic of the intelligence
     community's tone-deafness to public sentiment. Incidentally, an
     octopus enveloping the planet also so happens to be the logo of
     SPECTRE, the international criminal syndicate that James Bond is
     always thwarting. So there's that.
     Privacy and security researcher Runa Sandvik wanted to know who
     approved this and why, so she filed a FOIA with the NRO for the
     development materials that went into the logo. A few months later,
     the NRO delivered.

   [1]https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2016/jan/19/octopus-NRO/
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"Freedom is the capacity to pause between stimulus and response." ~Rollo May

References

   1. https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2016/jan/19/octopus-NRO/