The NYPD, along with court officers U.S. marshals and the United States secret service are running through logistics of how Tuesday's historic arraignment of the former president will go down.
The word is easy to laugh off as impossibly eccentric, evoking people who insist that they are being tailed by the secret service or watched over by an alien species.
The British secret service agency MI5 has released files which throw new light on the activities of one of its most effective double agents in the Second World War.
Clint Hill was the secret service agent on the back of the presidential limousine, transporting the president and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy as the motorcade made its way through Dealey Plaza.
Normally, the secret service closes a large swath of downtown Washington the day before an inauguration. But now that set to happen on Wednesday, 6 days earlier than originally planned.
As I waited for Sofiane, a small van screeched by; in the back was a group of skinny young men surrounding a sheep as if they were his secret service detail.