"You went ahead and did it anyway."

"Sure, John asked me not to, but since I already paid for his victory, I thought I might as well rub the media's nose in it before election day."

"Outstanding. Both John and the media deserve it. I just wanted to let you know we have a track on Osama himself and if you give the word, we will take him out for an election surprise."

"That is a surprise. Where is he?"

"You'll never guess."

"C'mon I don't have time for twenty questions. Where the heck is the bastard?"

"Brazil near the Bolivian border."

"Jesus! Chavez!"

"No - Osama...and Chavez."

"Do you still have operational teams in Brazil?"

"Only leftovers and no one reliable. We would have to import a team. We tracked him through Bolivia and ruffled a few feathers when we realized the government knew exactly who they were assisting. They have suspended all the standard DEA teams and are watching most of our facilities, but we still have folks handy. I'd prefer to bring in our best from the states on this one."

"Go. Do it."

"Looks like I'll get a chance to really earn that 'gold watch' after all."

"Don't get my hopes up. You promised to get him before."

"True. Well we'll just have to see what happens then, wont we?"

"Yes. We will."

"McCain really doesn't deserve this gift before election day."

"I know."

"I'll give a SatTra9 call just before in case things change."

"Ok. Good work in finding him. How do you do it?"

"The fundamental frequency scanner is now operational."

"Jesus. You actually got it to work? Does the greater Agency know?"

"No. We're just keeping this for SDAI right now. It's possibly the most useful tool in the world -and right now the most dangerous - and in the future the entire basis of personal identification and societies will depend on the technology. We can't risk going decompartmentalizing it yet."

"Understood. One last thing, when McCain pulls off this victory lots of folks are going to be gunning for me. You may want to step up my family's protection vector for the next bit."

"Yes. I'll assign another 20 men to back up your current one. Liberal heads will be going Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! The riot police will have a handful in the ghettos. Did you get Blackwater to beef up support in the worst of them?"

"Yeah. We also have a terror alert poised to go to high on election day and that will already help lockdown some of the typical trouble spots. Oh, George just walked in with Condi, she's still PO'd about Powell. I wont tell George yet. If you get him, then I will tell him."

"Sounds fair enough. Wish us luck."

"Good luck. But if you really got that FF scanner online you sure as heck don't need it now do you?"

"Oh, we'll still need it. Better prep Condi on what's going on and have the State Department warmed up. Oh...and tell her she still owes me a home cooked dinner and I intend to collect soon."

"You got it."

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