01:21 a.m.
“Tell me, Mr. Kold,” the Lawyer stirred his coffee and took a sip. “It is believed that the action of Private Banning, who passed a huge amount of secret information for publication to Cassandzhi, had a big influence on you. Is that true?
Kold thought. The Lawyer noticed that he didn’t have an unequivocal answer to this question. Silence went on for quite a long time. Finally Kold began to talk:
“You know, I’ll say it’s both: yes and no. The thing is, in the United States itself, there’s no clear position towards Banning’s actions. You see, from the point of view of the law, he is a criminal, a traitor, and because of his actions and the information which he helped make public, people have died. And society doesn’t see a hero in him. As for my point of view, I pay tribute to
