Even the Russians have a hard time finding competent people nowadays…
And here I thought the Russians were good drinkers.
Only the best, uh, spies?
She apparently excelled…
Not sending their best? Or maybe they are. I wonder what led her to become a spy. If it was just the careerism and chance to live outside russia, this must be a serious disappointment.
When Putin sends intelligence assets to disrupt our political process, he’s not sending his best. He’s sending clowns, and buffoons, and loose-lipped drunkards. And some, I assume, are good people.
Kids these days. No sense of operational security. When I was a kid, we followed the Moscow Rules and practiced good tradecraft.
They’re not sending us their best, their brightest…
DON’T. TALK. ABOUT WORK. AT THE BAR. is a message that is drilled into everybody doing anything even remotely sensitive, ever. That can be ultra secret sooper spy work, or it can be defense contracting, or it can be features of your employer’s latest in-development smartphone.
And still so many folks just cannot learn this simple, simple lesson.
I was out at a bar with some friends ages ago, when we were all young, and one guy had a college friend along. This guy was desperate for everyone to know he had some connection to U.S. intelligence. He talked in this cagey, evasive way about what he did for a living, talked about living in Europe, smoked his damn cigarette the European way, all of that. He did everything he could but say it. We were all laughing up our sleeves at him. So I’m guessing on the fringes of professionalism you get a lot of this.
It’s that drunken moment when one thinks one really want to impress the person(s) that you are around… you know the - I shouldn’t tell you this said in a slurred manner but this thing I am about to tell you - that shows how impressive/important I am - is true…
Of course this doesn’t work too well when that thing is about working for the Russian Govt (even if one is a national) and the Trump campaign. That tends to horrify listeners and send them off to report to authorities.
You know Carter Page!?
He is spying to the level of the target…
Why waste your best on the NRA and GOP when they are all but on your side to begin with?
Oh, we wouldn’t let that goof hang around, please.
The proper term is poseur…
Check your teabags, dear. maybe have a turnkey taste it first, next time you have a cuppa.
Vodka: the dumbass’s sodium pentathol.
The cigarette bit was the oh-come-on moment for me.
“That’s just her cover ! Nobody would suspect her being a spy, if she bragged about it while drunk ! We all know, you don’t say you are a spy, if you’re a spy ! It’s a secret !”