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Executive Treason

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Reported in the American press September 5, 2004

BESLAN, RUSSIA — Attackers who seized more than 1,000 hostages in a provincial school may have smuggled in a large cache of weapons, possibly disguised as construction equipment, in the weeks before the takeover.

Reported in the American press September 3, 2004

WASHINGTON — Despite its fervent denials, Israel secretly maintains a large and active intelligence-gathering operation in the United States, which for a long time, has been designed to recruit U.S. officials as spies and to procure classified documents, U.S. government officials said. FBI and other counterespionage agents have covertly followed, videotaped and bugged Israeli diplomats, intelligence officers and others in Washington, New York and elsewhere. “There is a huge, aggressive, ongoing set of Israeli activities directed against the United States,” said a former intelligence official, familiar with the latest FBI probe, and who recently left government. “Anybody who worked in counterintelligence in a professional capacity will tell you the Israelis are among the most aggressive and active countries targeting the United States.”

Australia Radio interview with Air Force Brigadier General John W. Rosa, Jr., Deputy Director for Current Operations, the Joint Staff, about terrorists hiding in islands of Indonesia March 20, 2002

“I don’t want to be specific and tell you how or what we found but as you might expect, that is a vast, vast array of islands. Are there easy places to hide there? You bet ya.”

Reported Maluku, Indonesia press report July 2000

The Indonesian Navy Chief Admiral warned against those trying to smuggle weapons to warring groups in riot-torn Maluku. He told his staff to take stern action against intended arms smugglers. So far, the Navy had already detained 17 vessels in waters surrounding Maluku, confiscating weapons. Tensions in Maluku have been fueled by the arrival of 2,000 hard-line Muslim fighters from Java island, who have vowed a holy war against Christians. More than 3,000 people have been killed to date.

Reported in the American press September 17, 2001

A high-tech Littleton, MA company, Viisage Technology, Inc. has offered the FBI free use of its face-recognition technology to aid in the apprehension or identification of the persons responsible for terrorist activities in the U.S.

Reported in the American press October 6, 2004

Representatives of Congress heard testimony today in special House Subcommittee Hearings on the Constitution that The Presidential Succession Act of 1947 remains the single most dangerous statute in the United States Code. Testimony termed the present rules of succession a “disastrous statute” and “an accident waiting to happen.” Witnesses called for the repeal of the existing law, and the formation of a new operational model that would insure an orderly transition in the face of catastrophic events.

Principle Characters

Washington

Henry Lamden, President of the United States

Morgan Taylor, Vice President of the United States

Lynn Meyerson, White House administrative assistant

Scott Roarke, Secret Service agent

Billy Gilmore, President’s Chief of Staff

Bernie “Bernsie” Bernstein, President’s Chief of Staff

Robert Mulligan, Director FBI

Jack Evans, Director National Intelligence

Louise Swingle, secretary to Vice President

Roy Bessolo, FBI supervisor

Beth Thomas, FBI agent

Presley Friedman, Head of Secret Service

Congressman Duke Patrick, Speaker of the House

General Robert Woodley Bridgeman, U.S. Marine Corps, ret.

Dan Shikar, FBI agent

Shannon Davis, FBI agent

Kelvin Lambert, journalist

Leopold Browning, Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court

Brad Rutberg, White House counsel

Mike Gimbrone, FBI agent

Malcolm Quenzel, Secret Service agent

Admiral Erwin “Skip” Gaston, U.S. Navy General

Reed Heath, U.S. Air Force

Captain Penny Walker, U.S. Army

General Jonas Jackson Johnson

The CIA

Vinne D’Angelo, CIA agent

Faruk Jassim, CIA analyst

Backus, CIA analyst

Carr, CIA analyst

Dixon, CIA analyst

Bauman, CIA analyst

Boston

Katie Kessler, attorney

Donald Witherspoon, attorney

Paul Erskine, Starbucks employee

Australia

Mick O’Gara, electrician

Randolph Tyler, SAS

Commander David Foss, Prime Minister

Ricky Morris, SASR Tactical Commandeer

Chris Wordlow, Defense Chief

Los Angeles

Roger Ellsworth, LAPD Homicide Detective

Chicago

Luis Gonzales, Argentinean art dealer

Roger Alley, a driver

New York

Michael O’Connell, writer, The New York Times

Andrea Weaver, news editor, The New York Times

Tel Aviv

Ira Wurlin, aide to Mossad chief

Jacob Schecter, Director of the Mossad

Andrews Air Force Base

Lieutenant Eric Ross

Colonel Peter Lewis, Air Force One pilot

Captain Bernard Agins, Air Force One co-pilot

Shawnee Mission, Kansas

Charles Corbett

Indonesia

Commander Umar Komari

Musah Atef, soldier

Amrozi al-Faruq, soldier

Colonel Nyuan Huang

Russia

Aleksandr Dubroff, retired Politburo member, ex-KGB

Yuri Ranchenkov, FSB Sergei Ryabov, FSB

South Pacific

Admiral Clemson Zimmer, Commander, 7th Fleet

Adm. Erwin “Skip” Gatson

Lt. James Nolt, Navy SEAL

Cpl. Derek Shaughnessy, Navy SEAL

Sgt. Mario Pintar, Navy SEAL

Julio Lopez, Navy SEAL

Harold Chaskes, Navy SEAL

Todd Roberts, Navy SEAL

Mark Polonsky, Navy SEAL

Brian Showalter, Navy SEAL

West Chester Township, Ohio

Bill and Gloria Cooper, retired couple

Ramelan Djali, President, Indonesia

Damascus, Syria

Jamil Laham, a retiree

Rateb Samin, a visitor

Kansas

Elliott Strong, talk radio host

Darice Strong, radio producer

Paris, France

Robby Pearlman, Canadian businessman

Part I

Chapter 1

Sydney, Australia
Monday, 18 June
4:20 A.M.

It was the blinking LED that caught the electrician’s attention.

“What’s that?” Mick O’Gara muttered to himself.

If it hadn’t been for the intermittent flicker, visible only because it cut through the darkness, it would have gone undetected. The light had flashed a moment after O’Gara killed the fluorescents in a storage room on the basement level of the new 38-story Ville St. George Hotel.

“Now where did you come from?” O’Gara turned the overhead lights back on and looked around the crowded 14-by-20-foot room. He waited about a minute. Nothing, he thought. The hotel electrician shrugged his shoulders. He was about to leave when he decided to give it one more moment, now with the lights off. Ten seconds went by, and he saw a red flash — dim and off to the right. He waited for it to repeat or cycle again. His patience was rewarded thirty seconds later, though he couldn’t quite pinpoint the location. A half-minute more — “There you are! Up in the crawl space.” The light appeared diffused, indirect. “You’re bouncing off something.”