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FBI Director Stephen Latent burst from the Oval Office door like he’d been vomited out. Just outside, the president’s chief of staff stood stunned. He could hear yelling from the normally tranquil office as the door closed behind Latent.
“Four hundred and fifty-six people! Goddammit, Latent! What in the f**k are you going to do about this! This is America, you sorry sack of s**t!”
Latent closed the door behind him, thoughts still racing through his head. If the president had secretly authorized the CIA to use the Fourteenth Protocol, he damn sure wasn’t acting like it. His reaction to the worst train disaster in US history revealed nothing of a man keeping a secret this big.
Latent, with years of interrogation experience, was looking for subtle signs of deception from the president.
