Cribbed from Dirk Eddelbuettel's email signature on the R-help List …
bq. FEATURE: VW Beetle license plate seen in California
Well _I_ thought it was funny.
I think Michael Rappaport is straining to find the silver lining in this intelligence cloud.
Consider this an open thread about this important story, with optional special reference to the question: is it a source of consolation if it turns out the whole spy game is usually just seeing how many clowns you can cram into a riddle, wrapped in a question, locked inside an enigma?