But if you had worked for the CIA, you wouldn’t put it on your resume, right?

Prosecution witness Stephen Smith testified yesterday at former Liberian President Charles Taylor’s war crimes trial in The Hague. Smith, now a visiting professor at Duke, covered the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia for a number of news outlets. His testimony was not that interesting, but I liked this part of the cross-examination:

Terry Munyard began his cross-examination by asking the witness that, if Stephen Smith ever was working for the CIA he would not put this part of his career on his CV, to which the witness answered that he is not familiar with the standard practise of an organisation he has never been part of.

Apparently Talyor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia guys had told Taylor at one point that Smith was a spy.