Using Rule 34 to Win

 

Attorneys' Investigative Consultants

Who came up with the phrase, and what's with the columns? Emilio Mola Vidal, a Nationalist general during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), originally coined the term. As four of his army columns moved on Madrid, the general referred to his militant supporters within the capital as his "fifth column," intent on undermining the loyalist government from within.

Do we have a "Fifth Column" in the United States? Click the links to the left and you decide.