ADMIRAL DONAGHY: (wincing, closing computer) Lemon, UNGE brass has recommended that we refer to all Spartan casualties as MIA, not KIA. Our boys don't die.
LIZ (BLUE HOLOGRAM): isn't that a little...dishonest?
ADMIRAL DONAGHY: it's no different from the time we shipped 30,000 microwaves with the emitters (flipping hands over) -facing out. We blamed that on a new Covenant superweapon, and hid the evidence with the Geiss Protocol.