| abstract | - Olivia Edmunds is the American Ambassador to Colombia who appeared in Patience (episode). Prior to acting as the ambassador, she had been a member of the United States Senate, where she had accepted a bribe to push for a more favorable drug policy with Colombia. This ultimately came back to haunt her later on. Around the time an intact version of the bomb used for the Metropolitan Airport Bombing in 1979 was uncovered in Colombia, the man responsible for the bombing, a drug lord and Communist agitator named Armand Luna, proceeded to threaten her as well as her loved ones in order to force her to frame Tomás Orlando, a drug kingpin and freedom fighter, with the deed, also using her earlier acceptance of the bribe as leverage to ensure her cooperation. As such, she then secretly placed a keystroke logger into Tomás's laptop hard-drive weeks before the official start of the resulting retaliation mission, Operation Lex Talionis. Throughout the mission, she maintained contact with NCIS as well as SEAL Commander Joe Hankos via vidcom regarding the events of the mission, also trying to cover up their actions in the area via red tape to the Colombians, although late into the mission, she ended up experiencing difficulty maintaining a solid cover story. To make matters worse for her, during one of the briefings she attended (which revealed via DNA testing via Tomás Orlando, who had personally arrived at the NCIS compound and requested asylum, that he had in fact been innocent of the bombings), Abby Sciuto, who at the time was on Hankos' ship alongside NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee trying to access damaged laptop's hard drive that was recovered from Tomás's then-recently-abandoned compound, revealed the existence of the keystroke logger, how long it had been on there, as well as Edmunds' role in putting it on there. After being confronted by this revelation by NCIS Director Leon Vance, Edmunds attempted to feebly end her participation of the briefing with the excuse of a bad connection, although she ultimately surrendered herself via MPs at the parking lot. She then explained to NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs her motives for having done the keystroke logger and then admitted upon being asked that the real person responsible was Luna. Presumably, she was given a lighter sentence for her role in revealing who was responsible for the bombing.
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