Reza Toulabi v. United States

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

To be a taxi driver in London, a person must master The Knowledge (468 difficult *123routes through London’s labyrinth), a process that usually takes two years, and so demonstrate ability to go smoothly from one place in the city to any other. Financial Times of London, March 22, 1989, page 16. To be a taxi driver in Moscow, a person must acquire the CIA’s map of the city, for until recently the USSR’s own street maps were intentionally inaccurate, omitting such landmarks as the headquarters of the KGB. New York Times, Sept. 3, 1988 (reporting the Soviet Union’s release…