And needles were even sometimes used as weapons, usually thrown at their victims, although two inch-long needles called fukibari were carried in the mouths of ninjas and spat into enemies' faces.
O'Leary joined the board of an Energy Department contractor to whom she appears to have thrown a sweetheart deal -- keeping steady its remuneration for providing security at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility in Colorado -- but cutting the security workforce the firm was responsible for paying to do that job.