There was a short entertainment clip on YouTube with ex-CIA person Jonna Mendez - that I can't immediately find - in which she said(as accurate as my heavily qu

There was a short entertainment clip on YouTube with ex-CIA person Jonna Mendez - that I can't immediately find - in which she said(as accurate as my heavily quantized memory goes) "The Agency can produce anything, so long it's made of paper, for official purposes". And it struck me, despite aware that spies forge documents all the time: it'll be the real deal when they do it. There is some process legitimacy that backs those. I doubt the xz maintainer would have rejected Mr. Jia Tan with verifiable record of employment with a defense contractor and complete Virginia identity, on the basis that their printed application form has no fingerprints and is not showing valid printer tracking dots. That isn't realistic at all, and wouldn't have mattered.