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They see Miranda in exactly the same way in which they see a drug mule.

Three days over terrain a mule couldn't navigate, laughing his ass off the entire way.

I suppose it's possible that he thought being a drug mule was just one of the tasks he had to do to woo this woman.

The journalist is very careful to respect the scammer, "Mr. Smith" but is very eager to dump where Mike lives, what mule fingered him, and the only thing protecting either would be the fact that Mr. Smith would be more exposed if he tried to retaliate directly.

It is a great example of one of those seemingly small details that X manages to use as mule to talk about larger issues of identity and assimilation.

A more apt analogy would be "Was old I was getting a pony but got a small plastic model of a mule".Pi made a huge song and dance about this yesterday, nobody can fault their media savvy, but in the end they didn't really release much.

>"...He's very likely carrying highly sensitive documentation from Snowden"Given the extremely high profile nature of this entire scenario, I don't see how anyone on the case could expect the probability of Greenwald using his partner as a data mule to rank as "very likely.

Even if you did, does it even make sense to move ballast stones down to the shore, then put them on a boat across this small of a distance, just to dump them, when in the same amount of time you could probably just load up a mule/horse/camel train and walk around the lake, and for better profit than pulling down the stones.