“Certainly Mr. President, whatever you need me to do,” I said.
“I don’t like bending the truth to the American people,” President Obama said, “but I’d like to present you, Agent Milani, as an ordinary Muslim-American woman who provided the CIA with the information that led to the discovery of the suitcase bomb planted inside the stadium. I know it’s a fiction, but perhaps the story will bring our cultures closer together, rather than pull us apart. I’ve been given the green light by your Director and we can move forward if you’re comfortable with the idea.”
“Yes sir, I am,” I said.
“OK. Let’s go.”
We walked down a corridor together and took our positions in front of the cameras in the Oval Office while Rasheed and Michelle Obama looked on from the side. Barack Obama delivered the defin
