“Running down a dream…
working on a mystery…
going wherever it leads…”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
“Pieces of intelligence, scraps of intelligence…you run down leads and you run down leads, and you hope that sometimes it works.”
DoD News Briefing May 01, 2002 http://www.defenselink.mil/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=3424 <br class="br">2000s
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