That should read court-martial.
No problem.
I don’t know if the auto company exists, but I’m not seeing how ‘working for an auto-parts company’ would provide cover for any sort of useful spying.
So he could arrange meetings with, what, Russian auto-parts manufacturers, I guess. What useful intel might that generate?
I’m not trying to be snarky—I’m just not seeing how that would work.
Also, “creating the documentation to give the semblance of being ineligible for the job”----which implies he didn’t do any of the things he was accused of, and so his discharge and all the processes involved were faked—quite a few people would have had to be in on this.
Again, why would so much trouble be gone to, with planning involving years, and numbers of people who’d have to agree to participate in the fakery----all for a guy who was in a position to talk to Russian auto-parts makers?
People would have known about and participated in his court-martial. There was a prosecutor, a defense attorney, and a military judge at the very least. There were NCIS investigators who traced the fraudulent payments. There were the clerks who processed his discharge. It seems pretty far-fetched that a spook agency would set all this up for a guy they hadn’t even hired yet. It’s much easier to just set up a new spy as a diplomat or executive in a front company.
My assumption is that if you’re a NOC, then your cover really only provides a rationale for you to enter the country. When you go and sneak into a foreign military base, your putative occupation has nothing to do with anything, since you’re just breaking and entering at that point.
A CIA agent in a diplomatic position, probably, is only concerned with developing assets. They’re staying in a single location for a long time and mostly trying to convince people to defect.
A NOC, I assume, primarily enacts one-time missions: Kill that guy, install this device, play this role for a single night at a ballroom dance, steal some turbo encabulators, etc. They’re not there to make friends and have long relationships, they’re just getting in and out as fast as they can.
NOC is better designed.
The Mueller grand jury has had its term of service extended six months. So much for Rudy’s guarantees that they were wrapping up.
They just need to fill out some footnotes for that report which RudyG tells me is due in a few weeks, I’m sure.
Nope. NOCs can include moles, double agents, sleeper agents, terrorist cells, long-term in-place agents, and probably other things I don’t know about. I’ve just been reading a history of the Mossad and finished a section on a man who was born an Egyptian Jew and was inserted into Syria as an agent, with the cover of being a Syrian whose parents had emigrated to Argentina. He became a leading member of government circles, which got him access to tons of useful information. Thanks to him, the Israelis were able to prevent the Syrians from diverting the Jordan, which is a primary (the primary?) source of fresh water for Israel. He was caught and hanged by the Syrians. Diplomats and diplomatic employees have some protection against this sort of thing; usually if they’re caught they’re declared persona non grata and sent home. NOCs … don’t have that protection.
The thing about diplomats and other personnel is, the governments of the countries they’re stationed in *know *about them. Depending on how adversarial the relationship between the two countries is, many of them will have tails any time they leave either their residence or the consulate/legation/embassy. My dad, for example, was stationed in the legation in Sophia, Bulgaria, for a short time during the Cold War. Any time anyone left the legation, they were followed by the secret police. (This was fairly easy to determine since almost the only people in Bulgaria at the time who could afford cars were the foreign diplomats/legation employees and the Bulgarian secret police. One night there was a big party involving most or all of the Western embassies/legations/what have yous, and the entertainment was a scavenger hunt that involved all the personnel going in and out of each other’s buildings multiple times over the course of the night. The Bulgarians were *very *upset.)
At least he has the rebuttal ready for whenever the report is released. It’s always so weird to me that he talks about that like it makes sense. How do you have a rebuttal ready for a report you haven’t seen? It could say “No collusion! Trump bigly innocent!”. Hmm. Seems Rudi must already know exactly what it’s going to say.
Rudy proves once again what a keen legal mind he’s put to work for the President.
Lock them both in a room with just one knife. Then shoot the winner 
Trump will give Butina to Putin, trying to sabotage the investigations again. Then she will have “an accident”.
With an umbrella.
How prophetic you are! The judge smacked them around quite a lot (Reuters):
A Trump-appointed judge, no less.
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Last night I was wondering why the Russkies dropped cheap ricin for expensive polonium. [/aside]
Perhaps it is because the victim suffers more from radiation sickness.
That’s hilarious. The only time I use the phrase “knock it off” is with my 4- and 2-year-old. How appropriate here.
We kind of umbrella accident with heart attack poison, or the kind of umbrella accident with Donald Trump trying to close his umbrella?
Huh? I’ve always thought it was a trademarked phrase used exclusively by SDMB mods.
My WAG is that polonium is still hard to get unless you’re a nuclear power, so using it is a kind of calling card.