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Now, James Bond famously had a licence to kill, but — let’s face facts — there is only so much you can do with that. Once you have bumped off Scaramanga that’s really that.  
Now, James Bond famously had a licence to kill, but — let’s face facts — there is only so much you can do with that. Once you have bumped off Scaramanga that’s really that.  


[[Eagle Squad]]’s power is more of a torture of the living. Whereas others in the legal documentation flow — notably, the poor benighted [[negotiator]]s who are, really, the brave footsoldiers of legal practice, however hotly the [[eaglery]] denies it — have meaningful commercial constraints on the perversity they can bring to their task: there are measurements of their performance, and abstrusity doesn’t count: their [[metric]]s, [[service level agreement]]s, [[KPI]]s — the whole ornate ''smörgåsbord'' of [[modernist]] fripperies by which their overlords can impel them to carry on, propelling them to find solutions, make accommodations, engineer compromises and basically box on — the Eagle Squad member has no such constraint.  
[[Eagle Squad]]’s power is all the more fearful in that it contemplates indefinite torture of the ''living''. Legal can insist on the most petulant, self-contradictory or wilful editions, on pain of ''everyone having to stop and wait till the matter is resolved''. Whereas others in the legal documentation flow — notably, the heoric, benighted [[negotiator]]s who are the real brave footsoldiers of legal practice, however hotly the [[eaglery]] denies it — have meaningful commercial constraints on the perversity they can bring to their task: they measured, their performance gauged, with no reward for gratuitous abstrusity: their [[metric]]s, [[service level agreement]]s, [[KPI]]s — the whole ornate ''smörgåsbord'' of [[modernist]] fripperies by which their overlords can impel them to carry on — propel them to find solutions, make accommodations, engineer compromises and basically box on — but a fully credentialised Eagle Squad member suffers no such constraint.  


She can resist a [[Sovereign immunity|sovereign immunity waiver]] from an industrial corporate having no particular association with any organ of state indefinitely, on principle, notwithstanding the fatuity of the request — indeed, ''because'' of the fatuity of the request! — with no second-guessing or cajoling from the cheap-seats.  
She can resist a [[Sovereign immunity|sovereign immunity waiver]] from an industrial corporate having no particular association with any organ of state indefinitely, on principle, notwithstanding the fatuity of the request — indeed, ''because'' of the fatuity of the request! — with no second-guessing or cajoling from the cheap-seats. It does not matter that the customer would have no hope of ''claiming'' sovereign immunity


This is ineffable legal stuff; the risks of compromise passeth all [[muggle]] comprehending, and that is that. Eagle Squad has not so much a licence to ''kill'' as a ''licence to [[die in a ditch]]''.
This is ineffable legal stuff; the risks of compromise passeth all [[muggle]] comprehending, and that is that. Eagle Squad has not so much a licence to ''kill'' as a ''licence to [[die in a ditch]]''.