Veteran operator-handler, thirty years in placement. Has been routing one operative away from a legal GCOA assassination authorization for two years — calling it optimal deployment. She has not logged the reasoning.
She places operators. Thirty years calibrating the difference between placements that go wrong and placements that go right against every mission intelligence brief she has ever been handed. Her current assessment: the authorization is legal, the reasons are insufficient, the operative made a political enemy rather than a genuine operational error.
She has been routing them to theaters where the authorization is difficult to execute. She has not told the operative. She has not told the GCOA. The log reads as optimal placement.
Currently working the Crackerjack docket at GSOTC. Twelve-year-old coat, lining replaced twice. Reading glasses in perpetual motion.