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As the criminals angrily described it to the BBC, "they yanked their own plug - tanking sales, burning logistics, and torching shareholder value".

But before I left, Ortega asked whether he could plug once again his plea for Congress to pay the court-approved private attorneys who help out his office.

They are plugged into other US satellites and sensors that enable them to detect a launch anywhere in the world.

"If you can demonstrate the value... and it's not going into a big black hole plugging a deficit, that's what people want," he said.

Since then his business and other interests – including his Tony Blair Institute for Global Change - have kept him firmly plugged into the region.