Dark as Daylight Ch. 04

"Would you please say those names again sir."

"You did not go deaf Susan. Get those four pissant lawyers in my office now."

"After I tell them to go into your office, can I go to lunch please?"

"It's 9:40 AM Susan, it's a little early for lunch."

"I just don't want to clean up the blood that's going to be on your walls. They hate each other, more than they hate you. You passed each of them over for a raise, and what you did to their fitness reports is unmentionable."

"If you don't get them into my office Susan, I'm going to do it to your fitness report."

"I will never tell you how to turn on the coffee machine sir."

"I will call the manufacturer."

"When they ask you to fill out the form, and they find out you are the Attorney General of the United States, the Chinese government will post it on Twitter. I can only imagine how many hits that will have, and the amount of responses you will receive."

"Susan get me those four lawyers in here."

"It shall be done, and I will be hiding under my desk when they get here."

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Four angry women marched in to the Attorney General's office without knocking. If you went by height, the tallest was 5'1", and the smallest was 5 feet without shoes on. They were not happy to be in his office, and it showed. It was quite an eclectic group. Ms. Beach was Mauritanian. Ms. Ringel was Jordanian. Ms. Barry was Swiss, and Ms. Angeles was Spanish. These women had very little in common, except they were all naturalized US citizens, they graduated in the top 10% of their law schools, and they couldn't stand each other, because they viewed the law differently. It made for some interesting lunchtime conversation in the cafeteria.

"Ringel put these gloves on, and take this to Susan. Have her make ten copies of it, put the original in a manila envelope stamped top secret, and bring everything back here."

"Susan is not at her desk."

"She's hiding under it, because the four of you are in my office. Get it done."

"Yes your majesty."

"Remember that serf."

Ringel was back a moment later.

The Attorney General said, "What you are about to read does not leave this room. If word gets out, I will know where it came from, and the four of you will enjoy the rest of your lives in Leavenworth. I know how much you love me, and I would love nothing better than to visit you in that lovely prison. Read this, and try to keep your mouth's closed when you finish."

Angeles said, "Someone's pulling your leg sir. This can't possibly be true."

"Before I answer Ms. Angeles, are there any other remarks?"

"This is so far out in left field; it just might be true. Whoever these people are, they are at your level sir, or possibly even higher. They have to be inside government, there's no other way to get this information. The timing would be critical."

"A very astute observation Ms. Ringel. I have a question for you however, how many layers of government are above me?"

"Laterally, the Congress, all their advisors, their staff, and the throngs of lobbyists that pound on their door every day.

The next step up would be the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the National Security Council, and everyone else with the president's ear.

The Department of Justice works very slowly, because we work within the Legal System. The FBI has the same restrictions.

The CIA, NSA, and all their brother agencies don't seem to work within the lines all the time. Snowden may have been a traitor to this country officially, but he exposed crimes being committed by the NSA every day. In order to break something like this up before they kill someone, and waste all that taxpayer money, I would be tempted to cross that line myself."

DuBarry asked, "If we know about this threat to a major US undertaking, and the President gets a daily briefing from his National Security Adviser, and the Defense Intelligence Agency, both verbally and in writing, shouldn't he know about it? Something has got to be wrong. Someone has purposely kept this information from him, or he has to be part of it. We are talking about some very high level people here, with security ratings to the very top of the scale. If we start an investigation they're going to know about it, and they're going to put a stop to it one way or another."

The Attorney General said, "Why do you think I picked you four?"

He burst out laughing when he saw the look on their faces. When he finished, they were ready to kill him.

"The reason I chose you is no one will believe you are working together on an operation; no less an operation of such importance. Nothing will be put down on paper. You will either photograph the evidence, record it, or remember it. Prove to me you graduated in the top 10% of your class, and make yourselves useful around here.

You will not stop bickering in this office. You will continue acting the way you have in the past. If anyone notices a change, it will be all over the building by the end of the day. Stay the same while you are inside this building, and do your job outside. If you are away for several days in a row, and they ask you where you were, tell them you were suspended for using government assets for private business. Stay alive while you are out there, it's the only way you will get your raise in two months."

Susan will transcribe anything you bring in, including your ramblings.

Now get out there and start arguing."

The women didn't wait until they entered the outer office to start arguing. They had not walked 10 feet before it started. When they reached the outer door, it sounded like a war was about to break out between the four of them.

"Richard, how do they get any work done when they are arguing all the time?"

"They are four of my best and most productive workers James. I purposely put their desks into a square so they could see and argue with each other all day long. They don't argue about personal things; they argue points of law. No one around them understands that's what they're doing. They just take it as arguing, and raised voices for 8 to 10 hours every day.

We had to buy them special chairs, because the regular government chairs didn't work for them. They are so short, and the chairs were so low, initially they had to sit on phonebooks to do their work.

Now they have the adjustable chairs, and every day, when they first come in, they sit down, pump the chairs up until they are at the right, and start yelling at one another.

The funniest part is, when you walk past them, you see their feet dangling 8 to 10 inches above the floor. It's hysterical."

It's been fun being here Rich. I have a Bureau to run, and I have to find a way to catch these people before they do any harm. Like you, I have to keep it close to the vest, and nothing can be put into my computer. I think we should call this 'Operation Poseidon'."

"Should I ask you why James?"

"Well, for one we know something is very fishy about this. 2, the rocket is being built on the shores of Louisiana, being floated around the Florida Keys, all the way up to Cape Kennedy to be launched. 3, we have three separate operations going to try to find out who the hell is attempting to blow up that rocket and kill as many as a hundred dignitaries, if they show up. If they don't, they'll all be arrested as being complicit in this mess, and that includes the president of the United States."

"You don't sound very excited about that last part."

"Do you realize what you would have to do to prosecute the President?"

"Yes I do. I would have to draw up articles of impeachment and get it approved by the Senate. I have to have him brought before the full Congress, and have him stand trial, prosecute him, and hope the Congress finds him guilty, and they impeach him. Then there is the civil trail which will probably take a year, before the jury finds him not guilty of such a horrendous crime."

"You did that so well, until the end that is, and then you let him go."

"No I didn't, because as he standing in front of the courthouse telling everyone how he loves the American judicial system, and how he was not guilty of this crime, two bullets will pierce his head, and he will fall to the floor the common criminal he is.

Hopefully, that man is not the president, is the head of the NSA or the DIA or some other agency who tried to pull this off to get more money for this project or other projects, and show how this one trillion-dollar boondoggle was not worth it. Believe me, however the head of this thing is, and his associates will all be dead when this is over. I know who will do it, but his hands will be spotless."

"Who are you talking about Richard? No one is above the law."

"As this man sees it, he is protecting this country from greed and a government secretly run by the military: a Coup D'état, while people stand up and cheer as they would at a football game.

This man has always seen the Big Picture, and he has become extremely wealthy because of it. He does not flaunt his wealth. He gives to charities all around the world. He gets richer because he knows where to be before everyone else does. He sent his son to China to take over a business that was worth three million dollars and gave him an outline of how to make it better. He recalled his son for the launch of the spacecraft this past December. The business is now worth eighteen billion dollars."

"Who are you talking about Richard? If you know he's going to kill these people we can go to a judge and wiretap his house and cars."

"You will never catch William Zabo. He works both sides of the fence with the greatest of ease. Do you want to see drug sales in New York City stop for a month; all you have to do is have William Zabo make a phone call, and it will happen.

If you have a transit strike and it is crippling Philadelphia, all either side has to do is beg him to make a phone call to the other side. It will cost you a fortune for that phone call, but the next day the trains and buses will be running.

I was a young lawyer, in Savanna, and we had a strike by the tugboat companies. They wouldn't listen to our best offer. We had ships anchored offshore and there was nothing we could do to get them in. I watch that man walked into their side of the bargaining room, and thirty minutes later he walked out with a signed contract for our second offer. Not only that, but they said their men would go back to work immediately.

Then all of a sudden something happened in New York, and he disappeared off the face of the earth. Turned out he found out that one of the Dons in New York was stealing from the four others. The four families secretly put him to death. Years later the son found out about it, and instead of starting a war in New York, he went after Zabo. It turned out to be a very big mistake. Zabo is still here, and Valentino is not.

However, Zabo's daughter married Valentino's son, and now their grand- children are running around everywhere. Life is weird."

"I was going to leave twenty minutes ago Richard. Do you have any more stories you want to go down memory lane with?"

"No I think that will do it for now. You can leave. Remember nothing on paper, and the only time we can talk is on secure phones."

"Roger dodger over and out."

"Very funny James, you should go on 'America's Got Talent' and lose."

"Can I borrow your Segway; I don't want to walk to the elevator."

"Get out of here, before I ask you for your gun, and shoot you with it."

"I would be the only safe person in this room."

"Out, now."

The End