Stop at Nothing by Michael Ledwidge

Author:Michael Ledwidge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Published: 2019-12-31T18:25:00+00:00

46

Gannon made a pained face.

“So they’ve just gone crazy? At the top? At the FBI? Full-tilt corrupt?”

Wheldon nodded.

“Bought and paid for. An organization is only as good as the people in it, Pete. You ever hear of a dirty cop when you were on the force?”

Gannon squinted at him.

“On the force?” Gannon said, making a puzzled face. “What do you mean? You think I’m a cop?”

“Let’s see,” Wheldon said. “Face like the map of Ireland, voice like a Yankee announcer and you actually want to return several million dollars of loot you found while fishing out on your boat. Is it such a crazy guess?”

“No comment,” Gannon said.

“Anyway,” Wheldon said. “The combination of the global money and influence and no one checking up on them is like nothing ever before seen on the planet. Now you add the technology, the NSA collection of all the global communication data, and now they have a trove of information and blackmail on virtually everyone.”

“The NSA collection of what?”

“You need to get out more, Pete. Since one month after 9/11, the NSA has been collecting everybody’s electronic sweet nothings and storing them in their computers for a rainy day. It was supposed to be just for checking on the terrorists, but now they don’t give a rat’s ass about the law. They’re using it against everyone. A blackmail Fort Knox.

“And you can’t think of the FBI in terms of being a domestic law enforcement agency anymore. After they signed the Patriot Act, the FBI joined the CIA. Almost all of the alphabet soup agencies are now under the same umbrella.”

“Like Big Pharma and Big Tobacco, we’ve got Big Intelligence now?” Gannon said.

“Exactly.”

“That can’t be right. There must be something in the Constitution, no? Where’s the outrage? Why the hell isn’t the press doing anything? Isn’t that their job?”

“Pete, pay attention. Most media companies are multinational corporations, too. Everybody has secrets, Pete. All you need is a little dirt on some top key people in each of the media outlets, and every story you want tanked gets tanked.”

Gannon looked at him.

“Okay, so while I went out fishing, my country apparently turned into one massive corrupt racket. Now what? What do we do now?”

Wheldon drummed his fingers on the table.

“I think there’s someone you should meet. She told me the same story you just told me. Well, not exactly the same. But it all fits.”

“She?”

“Yes. She’s a navy lieutenant, an accident investigator who was sent out to the plane crash site before the cover-up started. At the site, she met a coast guard diver who showed her the video he had filmed of the inside of the plane. That’s why when you told me there were six people, I knew you were legit. She told me the same thing last night.”

“So there’s another video?”

“No. She doesn’t have it. She just saw it. And the diver who filmed it is missing now. The FBI tried to grab her down in Florida as well, but she was just able to get away.

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