Wed Dec 19, 2018, 08:49 AM
Star Member TNNurse (3,313 posts)
So I will expose my ... ignorance
She isn't thinking beyond Mad Magazine's
Spy vs. Spy.
An agent is someone who represents someone or something else, e.g. their employer:
If in the course of doing their duty a plumber driving a company truck causes an accident, their employer is liable because of agency law. That guy/gal who caused the accident is his employer's agent.
When
Joe Shmoe of the Kokomo Kickapoos is negotiating a new contract, his agent represents him in the negotiations.
If Mary Smyth-Jones is a paid lobbyist for Eritrea, she is their agent. US law requires such lobbyists to register as agents of whatever foreign governments they represent.
Is
Star Member TNNurse a young pup who missed learning this in the 1970s (when, IIRC, the current law was passed)? Or was she not paying attention, plus or minus a few
-fulls?