The operation followed months of undercover police work that gathered evidence of an extraordinarily lucrative empire.
For example, he notes that agents in undercover police and intelligence work lack written doctrine on how to deceive and rarely subject any existing doctrine to rigorous scientific inquiry.
In Britain, on the orders of a home secretary who vowed to "eradicate" it, undercover police were sent out to loiter in bars, entrap gay men and put them in jail.
HUSSEIN: No. Some undercover policemen at the Fair caught the thieves.
It also turned out that the man who told us to do this was an undercover policeman.
America regularly casts the UN (and the international criminal court) as the hapless sheriff, and so continues to play the world's undercover policeman. The UK has gone along for the ride.
