It's been a while since we here at manIC have nominated anybody for a GOB Award. The GOB, named for Will Arnett's character in Arrested Development, recognizes ill-conceived diplomatic actions and is awarded periodically to dips who "have made a huge mistake."
Today's candidate: The unnamed Russian diplomat Ireland booted off the island for identity theft. Read about it in the New York Times. Evidently this diplomat stole six Irish identities and handed them over to Russian spies in the U.S. in what is both a horrendous breach of diplomacy and really incredible set-up for an offensive ethnic joke. (So a Russian spy walks into a New York bar with an Irish passport....)
Kudos, anonymous Russian diplomat. This one's for you:
This reminds me of the stories last year of Mossad using the identities of British and other citizens to obtain passports to carry out an execution in Dubai. Unless the British and other govts were in on it (who knows these days), major diplomacy faux pas.
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