*This isn't about Anna Chapman's legal issues, but it portrays a similarly orthogonal take on political reality. If you're going to sue covert operatives for carrying out extrajudicial executions, why not just sue them for being covert operatives in the first place? The entire POINT of being a covert operative is to frustrate justice systems. That's why they are "covert."
*There are all kinds of governments that don't have lawyers, but there's never been a government that lacked spies. Espionage is the world's second-oldest profession and lawyers probably rank in somewhere around #13.
*Also, if the extrajudicial murder of 2,500 Pakistani civilians is so dreadful, how about all the OTHER extrajudicial murders of Pakistani civilians, mostly being carried out by the guys who are getting killed in the extrajudicial murders? Those other killings are much, much more numerous.
*I mean, why not just sue bin Laden for extrajudicial murders? The guy had a fixed address in Abbottabad, why not just send a process server to knock on his door? Get him to cease and desist.
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/07/201172612395401691.html
*The drone "bugsplats" would likely dry up fast if there were journalists photographing the wreckage every day, but, as this Al Jazeera article points out, these journalists get killed off by the terrorists with the same alacrity that the terrorists get killed off by the drones. Maintaining a netherworld of this kind takes a lot of work from everybody concerned: victim, countervictim, counter-countervictim, they've all got a major stake in making sure it stays off the record.
*The one file that would be most revelatory would be the onboard videos of Predator aircraft, presumably maintained in cherished secrecy by the CIA. I'd be guessing that someday, somehow, somebody runs the ol' demo reel.
