Saunders stroked his bristly black hair.
“We believe local authorities, working in their
normal manner, have the best chance to uncover what's going on, without
igniting a firestorm and a thousand alarm bells going off.”
“You want to share information?” I said, cutting
through the script peppered with nightmares, fevers and alarms,
words the picketer and Sally Mathews had used. “Is that right?”
“The Air Force can pledge certain sophisticated
surveillance equipment that might be of use, along with technicians to operate
it.”
“Of course, said personnel would be under
military command,” Grace said.
“You want to take over the investigation?” Blair
said.
“That's exactly what we don't want to do,”
Saunders said quickly. “You know these people and this country much better than
we
