OH, JUICY – AT 10:40 A.M. ET:  The British spy scandals are the best, aren't they?  They're so much more intriguing than our bland, routine scandals.  There's a new one, and the usual statements are being issued.  From London's Telegraph: 

Katia Zatuliveter, a researcher for an MP on the influential defence select committee, is to be expelled from Britain after being questioned on suspicion of espionage by security services.

How did she get to such an influential committee?

Mr Hancock has recently asked sensitive questions in Parliament about the quantities of radioactive materials held by the country and the future of its nuclear deterrent.

Miss Zatuliveter has also worked for a defence think-tank and written articles that criticised Nato while defending military action by Russia.

And no one noticed?  Check out the photo with the story.  All good spy scandals have pretty girls?  Who have we had?  The Walker family?  Aldrich Ames?  Shame on us.

However Mr Hancock, the Lib Dem member for Portsmouth South, denied she was a sleeper agent for Moscow and insisted the authorities had never raised their concerns with him.

Considering the next paragraph, we can understand why they'd never trust him.

Mr Hancock, who is presently on police bail over an alleged indecent assault against a female constituent, said: “She is not a Russian spy. I know nothing about espionage, but she has been subjected to a deportation order.

"She is appealing it, because she feels - quite rightly - that she has done nothing wrong."

COMMENT:  So, we have a member of Parliament on police bail for a sex charge, and an employee who poses on beaches in a bikini and grass skirt, and who writes loving articles about Russian military adventures.

Start casting the movie.  James Bond, we need you.

December 5, 2010