It occurs to me the Noem purse theft may not be a simple robbery

[jmowreader]

I didn’t work in the field of intelligence that involves secret agents and skulking in the shadows, but the people who do use a technique called a brush pass to transfer information from an agent to his or her handler. For example, you might wind a piece of paper with secrets written on it around the filler in a Bic Clic pen and “accidentally” find yourself in a mall near your handler. The handler sees a display of cards you can fill out to get information about a timeshare or something, but he doesn’t have a pen so when he asks if anyone has one you give him the one with the secrets in it and disappear into the crowd.

Because a Secretary of Homeland Security has a bodyguard at all times and they would have noticed someone stealing their principal’s purse, it seems to me that this bag being used as the container for a brush pass is more likely. And because there was so much money in there, I think she was passing orders and payment to an informant or other kind of agent rather than passing it up to her own handler.

“But what about the makeup bag?” Noem wears a lot of makeup, and when she isn’t using her purse to pass information she needs it to carry things she needs in daily life.

[gab13by13]

1. Anything is possible with these fuckers

It would probably be easier for her to just call Putin on her cell phone.

[Blues Heron]

2. She definitely shouldn't be trusted

[FSogol]

3. She just pretends to be secret agent Barbie. She isn't really doing anything more than cosplay.

The thief saw an unattended $4000 purse and grabbed it.

Also, Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy.

Glad I could clear these things up.

[LuckyLib]

4. Or, more likely, she hung her purse on the back

of her chair — a dumb tourist move that results in a theft as old as time.

[unblock]

5. I don't think these people are particularly sneaky.

They're far too clumsy and incompetent and chatty and untrustworthy to do super clandestine things.

[GenThePerservering]

6. A lot of women carry makeup bags

even those who don't wear a lot of makeup - a pouch it keeps those little objects together. I carry lipstick and tools in mine.

I think the $3000 was basic bribe money, and she's an idiot who wasn't paying attention.

And blank checks? Is this the 80s again?

[Baitball Blogger]

7. I have been saying it all along.

Kevin Costner and No Way Out.

[orangecrush]

8. Bingo

[Deep State Witch]

9. Exactly This

Especially in a busy restaurant like Capital Burger, which is across the street from the DC Convention Center. (I've been there. Awesome burgers and they have GF buns.)

It could also have been that she was meeting her boyfriend, Corey Lewandowski, for a bit of an Easter bunny hop.

[struggle4progress]

10. That seems most likely to me but it could also be

a gun-and-money transfer for a murder contract or perhaps just routine insurance fraud

[GreatGazoo]

11. You're alleging that she passed her passport, $3K, etc

to someone in an area covered with CCT and facial recognition and then announced that pass to the whole world?