Interpreters And The CIA

The fake interpreter story is indeed too bizarre to be anything but a random derp from an astoundingly random universe, but the unbelievably high profile makes you feel like you are not getting the humor in some outlandish performance art or the best episode over of Bullshit, or Not?.  Lots of folks should feel relieved that the gibberish sign language was as bad as it got, because if it had turned ugly, the CIA and the rest of the U.S. security state would have done a bloody job of covering their asses.