“If that is all they know, what makes your people think that there may be a threat to the United States?” Logan asked.
“We don’t know for certain,” said Erickson,” but that is exactly why we figure the Russians are so anxious to help with this thing. They don’t know for certain either. Their best intelligence indicates that the stuff is headed this way, but they can’t be sure. The attack could be headed their way as easily as ours. They’ve got a pretty serious Jihadist threat coming at them out of places like Chechnya and so forth. So, they’re being very atypically cooperative on this, and our people have been on the thing like stink-on-a-stick since we found out about it. Every agency in our anti-terror network is now working on it around the clock. We’re involved, the Defense Department
