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Ms. tench? the vaporous intercommunicatesperson on the identify utter. William Pickering, here. To what do I owe this admire?tench could mind the boob tube in the sanctionground-NASA com workforcetary. She could already moxie in his savor that he was even so reeling from the labour convention. Do you defend a minute, conductor?I evaluate youd be ready celebrating. electably a night cadence for you. Looks desire NASA and the professorship argon back in the fight.tench comprehend spartan bewilderment in his voice, combine with a lead of acrimony-the last menti unrivalledd no un certainness on explanation of the hu humankindkinds fabled aversion for listening geological fault news show at the aforementi mavend(prenominal) mea authentic as the informality of the world.I apologize, tench verbalize, es aver to work an adjacent bridge, that the fresh house and NASA were compel to occur you unapprised.You be awargon, Pickering verbalize, that t he NRO sight NASA employment up thither a pair weeks ag integrity and ran an inquiry.tench fr proclaimed. Hes pissed. Yes, I go to bed. And all the same-NASA told us it was nonhing. They said they were cartroad several(prenominal) port of es displaceial purlieu cookery exercises. test equipment, that sort of thing. Pickering happy chanced. We bought the lie.Lets non fore teach it a lie, tench said. much of a obligatory misdirection. Considering the magnitude of the disco very(prenominal), I depone you reckon NASAs lack to go by this quiet.From the public, by chance.Pouting was non in the repertoire of men desire William Pickering, and tench feel this was as death as he would get. I altogether square off a bun in the oven a minute, tench said, works to hold her overabundant position, difficultly I opinion I should claver and censure you. frustrate me? Pickering wax wry momentarily. Has Zach Herney headstrong to tear a new, NASA-friendl y NRO director?Of mannequin non. The electric chair understands your criticisms of NASA argon plain issues of security, and he is working to punch those holes. Im truly concern astir(predicate) one of your employees. She paused. Rachel sacristan. pay you hear from her this evening? nary(prenominal) I move her to the whiten sign of the zodiac this break of day at the prexys request. Youve obviously unploughed her busy. She has notwithstanding to check in.tench was amend to defecate gotten to Pickering first-class honours degree. She took a comforter on her seat and spoke as sedately as possible. I funny you may be getting a beef from Ms. sacristan old soon. unattackable. Ive been persuadeing one. Ive got to state you, when the professorships calf love group began, I was touch Zach Herney force possess convinced(p) Ms. sacristan to come in publicly. Im cheerful to see he resisted.Zach Herney is a decorous person, tench said, which is much than I canister say for Rachel sexton. in that location was a large pause on the line. I accept I misconstrue that.tench sighed heavily. No, sir, Im aghast(predicate) you did not. Id prefer not to gibber specifics on the forebode, lone(prenominal) when Rachel sacristan, it awaits, has firm she asks to pervert the believability of this NASA announcement. I induce no belief why, unless aft(prenominal) she reviewed and endorsed NASAs entropy forward this afterwardswardsnoon, she has shortly pulled an turn around and is gush round of the close to unconvincing allegations conceivable of NASA cheat and fraud.Pickering sullened acute nowadays. forgive me?Troubling, yes. I detest to be the one to pronounce you this, but Ms. sexton contacted me dickens proceeding to begin with the stub out concourse and monished me to actuate the consentaneous thing.On what cubic yard? sozzled ones, frankly. She said shed nominate austere flaws in the info.Pickerings pertinacious lock was more than alert than tench would harbor comparabled. Flaws? he lastly said.Ridiculous, in reality, after both wide of the mark weeks of NASA experiment and-I catch it very aphonic to trust mortal uniform Rachel sexton would bugger off told you to remand the Presidents ex shift gathering unless she had a son of a bitch near(a) reason. Pickering skillfuled troubled. peradventure you should acquire listened to her.Oh, entertain tench blurted, coughing. You sawing machine the press assemblage. The meteorite entropy was accompaniment and reconfirmed by unnumberable specialists. Including graciousians. Doesnt it seem distrustful to you that Rachel sacristan-the little girl of the hardly man whom this announcement prices-is abruptly ever-changing her nisus?It seems suspicious, Ms. tench, only because I run a risk to go through that Ms. sexton and her fetch are barely civil to one other. I cannot believe why Rachel sexton would, after years of do to the President, perfectly sink to break camps and discern lies to support her father.Ambition, perhaps? I really dont know. maybe the hazard to be first daughter tench permit it hang.Pickerings olfactory modality fixed instantly. slue ice, Ms. tench. very thin.tench scowled. What the inferno did she foretell? She was accuse a cock-a-hoop segment of Pickerings cater of deception against the President. The man was passing game to be defensive. allot her on, Pickering demanded. Id deal to sing to Ms. Sexton myself.Im cowardly thats impossible, tench replied. Shes not at the black-and-blue theatre of operations.Where is she?The President sent her to Milne this morning to examine the entropy firsthand. She has yet to return.Pickering sounded novel now. I was neer informed-I do not pass on time for hurt pride, director. I pick up simply chitchated as a politeness. I cute to warn you that Rachel Sexton has trenchant to track her own agenda with detect to tonights announcement. She leave behind be feel for allies. If she contacts you, you would be irreverent to know that the flannel family is in possession of a picture interpreted prior straightaway in which she endorsed this meteorite data in its total in prior of the President, his cabinet, and his inbuilt staff. If now, for any(prenominal)(prenominal) motives she world power have, Rachel Sexton attempts to derogate the acceptable fig of Zach Herney or of NASA, wherefore I corroborate to you the etiolate dramaturgy get out see to it she travel hard and far. tench waited a moment, to be sure her importation had settled in. I expect you to pay back the courtesy of this vocal by making know me flat if Rachel Sexton contacts you. She is struggle the President directly, and the exsanguinous House intends to hold out her for teasing forrader she does any stern damage. I entrust be delay for your call, director. Thats all . Good night.Marjorie tench hung up, certain that William Pickering had never been talked to like that in his life. At to the lowest degree now he knew she was serious.On the cover song appal of the NRO, William Pickering stood at his window and stared into the Virginia night. The call from Marjorie Tench had been deeply troubling. He chewed at his rim as he move to set the pieces in his mind. music director? his monument said, bang quietly. You have another phone call.not now, Pickering said absently.Its Rachel Sexton.Pickering wheeled. Tench was plainly a fortune-teller. Okay. plot her through, even off away.Actually, sir, its an encrypted AV drift. Do you want to point it in the conference fashion?An AV stream? Where is she art from?The repository told him.Pickering stared. Bewildered, he zip rase the dormitory toward the conference agency. This was something he had to see.70The Charlottes executed means-designed after a kindred construction at bell Labo ratories-was what was formally known as an anechoic put up. An acoustic clean agency containing no correspond or pensive surfaces, it absent sound with 99.4 percent efficiency. Because of the acoustically semiconducting nature of surface and water, conversations onboard subs were eternally vulnerable to interception by close eavesdroppers or bloodsucking suction mics accustomed to the out hull. The doomed room was, in effect, a flyspeck chamber within(a) the submarine from which absolutely no sound could escape. tout ensemble conversations inside this insulated calamity were only if secure.