The American was meant to represent international espionage, although there was a peculiarity about it being quite so compressed.
Do these acts constitute espionage?
There is no other explanation for his overruling of the entire national security establishment in Trump's defense of the Chinese telecom company ZTE, which was caught red-handed violating the embargo against North Korea and which represents a real espionage threat.
If the Kremlin's hand in the DNC email hack and leak is confirmed, however, that would represent concrete evidence not just of espionage but an active attempt to influence the political process of another country.
The attack would represent the first known case of corporate espionage in which a professional sports team hacked the network of another team.
Rather than representing evidence of active espionage, the entire episode looks more like a painfully familiar story: officials handling large amounts of cash for a priority program with minimal accountability.
But U.S. officials and some commentators said the charges by the DOJ represent a firm stance against what they describe as the illegitimate use of cyber espionage to gain an advantage for companies in competitive markets.
To some, those discussions involving Israel represent a particularly dubious form of lobbying that toes and often crosses the line between advocacy and espionage.
There are gadgets — a camera in a cigarette lighter, a pen with a sleeping gas, representing "the future of military espionage".
There are gadgets — a camera in a cigarette lighter, a pen with a sleeping gas, representing "the future of military espionage". He comes home to find a woman in his bathtub.
Fittingly, one of the grandfathers of the form is represented in this mini-festival of espionage.
