I was going to respond that it's possible he was using the Force to hide his actions, but that's making it more complicated than it needs to be with no evidence to support it. I like @DarthLocke's answer better, though. :)

@NaftuliKay I was quoting Han Solo, not really questioning you. It was humor (at least, it was supposed to be).

Easy?! You call that easy?!

@Steve-O a cruiser would never be on the ground. They're too big to achieve planetary lift-off again. They're constructed in space and repaired in space. So it was already in space (and I believe the opening shot shows it as the destination for the fleeing transports), and the transports were the ships still leaving the ground.

@Charles "Tact" or "tactful" is nearly always used in inter-personal ways, not militarily. The definition of the word may seem to allow for a military usage, but it's never used that way. I do agree that it's nit-picking, but it's the kind of question one might see on the English Language Learners stack overflow. Is it absolutely wrong? Maybe not. But it's probably not the best word choice here.

She goes from Queen of a single planet to Senator representing that planet in the government of the entire galaxy. It would be similar to going from the Mayor of a city to being a senator or member of parliament in the national government.

This is what I was going to say as well. The CIA isn't legally allowed to operate inside the US (there are exceptions, like when they're working directly with the FBI). We don't call the FBI agents "spies", even the ones in counterintelligence, so any "spy movie", by definition, would most likely be set outside of the US.