Chapter
10: Middle East: The Turkey’s cooked
Art
Dutton's official title was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic
Affairs, which in the official hierarchical structure put him at about number
twelve on the totem pole. In reality he was the right hand man of Secretary of
Defense Sivalingam Sivananthan. Sri Lanka–born, Sivalingam Sivananthan was
a physicist and entrepreneur. He had been director of the microphysics
laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was the founder of
Sivananthan Laboratories Inc. in Bolingbrook, Illinois, and created advanced
military infrared night vision technology, a platform for next-generation solar
cells. He also helped found the nonprofit Institute for Solar Photovoltaic
Innovation, Research, and Edu-training, or INSPIRE, to prepare the Illinois
workforce and interested students to build a renewable energy and solar
ecosystem for the state. He had been taped for increasingly sensitive military
innovations and was instrumental in several post fossil fuel military break-
troughs. He had always had an admiration for Ron Smith and the EAG and since he
had a combined expertise in advanced military innovation and technology and
alternative energy and environmental preservation, he was popular with
conservatives, liberals, hawks, doves, tree huggers, land raiders, Greenpeace and
the joint chiefs. When Dr Sarah Jane Kelly had chosen him for Secretary of
Defense, he acquiesced only if allowed to bring in most of his staff and Art
Dutton who was a genius and whose uncanny ability to organize the best talent,
harvesting the best results had made him and Sivalingam billionaires.
Of
course Ron's ability to spot huge potential talent especially talent that
shared his ideology had caused him to notice and follow Sivalingam and Art
years ago. They had long since become friends and had worked together to
achieve many positive results for many years. Right now Ron was in touch with
the SOD office and was starting to freak out about his friend Art and his
assistant Sam. They had now been missing for 32 hours. Ron and company had been
the last group to see them at the meeting at EAG headquarters early the
previous day. "I don't give a shit if he is at the bottom of the fucking
Atlantic......connect me to his com frequency right fucking now or I will climb
through this fibro-optic cable and strangle your fucking ass" Ron was
yelling to some poor assistant who's only violation was to suggest that
Secretary Sivananthan was busy. "I will get him right away for you
sir" was the reply. "Ron what's up, where the hell is Art".
"Don't know buddy, last we saw him, he and Sammy were heading to A.J.s
office to ask for some help on this thing we are uncovering. They left the
office and never showed at A.J.s. I had Laura send you everything in the level
six code. I'm guessing there's a security breach in your detail. Your driver,
secret service security guy the D.C. Cops or all three were probably on the
take and I suspect they gassed Art and Sam the second they got in the car.
Now....Sam is a newbie and they could have pulled anything on him, but Art
knows his shit and they would have had a hard time getting the drop on him.
This is why I suspect they used gas. They are probably dead by now, but you
guys should put some energy on it. NSA and CIA already have....thus my
pessimistic outlook, but you and Art were close so you should handle an
investigation yourself and even if they're dead you might want to go the extra
yard and find out who pulled the plug and exercise some Sivananthan justice if
you catch my drift". "Yea I do Ron, thanks. I reviewed your stuff....wow
pretty wild accusations. I am totally on this with you and I believe your boy
Jack's story, but you know we need a hell of a lot more provable evidence to do
anything". "Of course you do buddy boy, so find it. You don't have to
deal with shit like warrants or probable cause; you have spooks....so fucking
use them"! "Ok, ok I'll find them, don't worry. Is this everything
you have". "Yep, that's it so far, but I'll let you know ASAP when we
turn up anything. I'm also going to follow up face to face with A.J. If you
think that's a good idea". "I don't see why not. He is about as
straight as they come". "That's what I think too. Thanks Sivalingam,
talk to you soon".
Truth
was that the SOD office really didn't have mush "police power" as it
were. In the years following 9/11 and even with Barack Obama following George
W. Bush the true power to intimidate and actually spy on American citizens lay
in the NSA. Several different events and unconnected policies had played a
serendipitous roll in letting the National Security Administration amass
tremendous power to spy and intimidate within the U.S. The former "BIG
BULLY" in America had been the IRS. Everybody was scared of the IRS and
certain administrations in history had used them as their personal pit bull. In
2013 a huge IRS scandal had disrupted the IRS. IRS agents had targeted
conservative political groups which created conservative/ republican outrage.
Then it was discovered that the IRS offices were wasting large sums of money
making mock videos and having
extravagant parities. It eventually resulted in a total melt down of the IRS, a
sweeping investigation that actually uncovered a mass conservative conspiracy
led by Senator Lindsey Graham who had originally bribed IRS officials to target
conservative groups only to try
and expose it and get the Obama Administration into deep shit. The plan ultimately
back fired on them and they were the ones who ended in a shit faced condition.
The positive result being the complete dismantle of the IRS and a long awaited,
much needed complete re-do of the Federal Tax Code. From six thousand four
hundred and twenty pages to one hundred and twenty five. A flat tax of fifteen
percent was enacted and an extra five percent for couples making over five
hundred thousand. Corporate tax was also fifteen percent. No tax on capital
gain. No tax on dividends. No personal deductions except for charitable
contributions.
Now
that the IRS had been dismantled, and reassembled in a toothless, nurtured
form, the already robust, and eager to abuse NSA was chomping at the bit to
jump in and provide the malicious tool of corruption that every political
organization drools over. The NSA had already used (and abused) PRYSEM as a way
to subvert laws and excised data-mining and spying so it was only a natural
evolution to grow into a political tool that if wanted, could be used for an
administrations personal objectives. Ron, who had studied man's evolution of technology,
had a theory about the evolution of organizations. Especially bureaucracies
which he often said had a life and growth of their own.
Since
the administration of President Kelly and the appointment of Pete Miller to
head up the NSA, the abuse of power and use of intimidation had been mostly
mitigated. Pete was thought of by Ron as a man of integrity and not one likely
to use the data within the NSA for inappropriate measures. The one thing for
sure; nothing could compare with the abuse of power and corruption under Chief
Arie Fletcher during the Santorum administration.
"Pete
can you find out what happened to Sam and Art......strike that, I know what
happened to them......can you find out who killed them and kill them
back"? "Ron, I'm not sure we can work it exactly like that but I will
find out who is behind this. We have been looking into the intel you passed to
us this morning from your boy Jack. Pretty hard to move on this without
substantiation". Yea, I just heard that same thing" Ron replied.
"What's your plan Pete". "I have a few ideas and different plans
of action; I can come over and fill in you Laura and Charlie if you want".
"That would be great. Thanks Pete". "Jane....can you get me Fin
Hameratt"?. "Yes boss. She's on...ouopps never mind, I got her
message system....hum that's funny". "What...what the hell are you
talking about". Ron yelled. Jane was still wondering what was going on.
"I would normally get a digital location signal and an auto patch through
with her level four security communication frequency, but it's not happening.
It's like she is.......not.....around.....Orr....".. "Jane, what the
fuck are you mumbling about"? "I think something's wrong
boss".
"Get
me Ahbeene Farhteen, he's Turkish NIO" Ron replied immediately to Jane's
concerns. The National Intelligence Organization of Turkey was an organization
which commanded global respect. They were extremely capable, well run and as
transparent as one can be considering their duties and directive. Since the
replacement of Former Prime
Minister Recep Tiyyan Erdogan in 2013 and the implantation of democratic and
sectarian reforms the NIO and most other Central Government organizations were
largely supported by the citizens of Turkey.
Prime
Minister Erdogan saw the end of his political career in June of 2013 when protests against
the perceived authoritarianism of Erdogan and his policies, starting from a small sit-in
in Istanbul in
defense of a city park. After
the police's intense
reaction with tear gas, the protests
grew each day for the next seven days. Faced by the largest mass protest in a decade,
Erdogan made this controversial remark in a televised speech: "The police
were there yesterday, they are there today, and they will be there
tomorrow. Taksim
Square cannot be allowed to be a place where marginal groups
can freely roam". Shortly after the growing protests, he left the country
for a visit to Morocco, but he received a cold welcome and did not meet Mohammed VI of Morocco.[81] Erdoğan
claimed: "social media is the worst menace to society". As it turns
out, his remarks and general attitude toward a "big brother society"
proved to be a big mistake.
Ahbeene
Farhteen was the DIRECTORATE OF ELECTRONIC AND TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE for the
NIO. The main duties of this directorate were ELINT (Electronic intelligence)
and SIGINT (signal intelligence). Ahbeene's primary mission was counteracting
all electronic and technical attacks against Turkey and its allies and his
division was the best there was. He and Dr. Hammeratt had worked together on
many issues and Ron had come to respect Ahbeene's abilities and integrity.
"Nasıl
arkadaşım yapıyoruz hey ron". Spoke Ahbeene as their communication line
was secured". Greetings to you too my old friend" Ron returned the
greeting. "What can I do for you old friend"? "I have a feeling
that Fin Hammertt has been murdered or kidnapped. Can you look into things for
me"? "I got agents on the way to her office as we speak. What the
heck is happening? We have been gathering a large quantity of data regarding
some crazy shit. Major oil and nat. gas reserves that were supposed to be
disposed of being stockpiled, and a hell of a lot of military hardware. We also
see a lot of nasty, unfriendly people moving into places they really have no
business being. Does any of this sound familiar? Does any of this have anything
to do with Fin missing". "Bingo on both accounts" said Ron.
"I am transmitting you everything we have. We suspect Senator Justin Amash
is at the top or close to it. You are going to have to deduce who's involved
over in your neighborhood. I would guess some top dogs are part of this thing.
In fact I'm sure of it, no international conspiracy bent on reconstituting
petroleum distillates as an energy source, selling it, selling the machinery
and weaponry that uses it, and starting a few wars to gain power in the African
Continent could possibly succeed without some assets within the
Turkish/Pakistani/ Israeli Government cooperative". "Ok, I'm feeding
your stuff into our computers now. I will run some programs and figure out
exactly who's involved. Now that I know the broad strokes, I can bore down to
the details no problem. While we've been talking I've put seven people and six
thousand terabytes to work on it. We've already run half a dozen different
algorithms and I have sixteen suspects. Give me another half hour to get some
human intel and....... Oh shit!!!!!" "What is it Ahbeene"? Ron
asked. "Sorry my friend, Fin is dead. My men just reported, she was in her
office poisoned". "God dammit, those fucking shit heads are going to
pay.....Fuck....fuck...” Ron was just melting down. This was the third friend
of Ron's to fall victim to this clandestine operation and he was getting very
very angry. "Ahbeene, can you please find whoever did this and kill
them". "Consider it done Ron. What else do you have as far as
operations in Istanbul"? "As you know, Fin had her own office, but we
maintain a research facility over on the north side of the Bosporus. Pretty
light on security so if you could check it out....I'll copy you the
coordinates, and Ahbeene"..."Yea Ron"....."Remember to kill
those fuckers". "Yea Ron, I'll get back to you soon".
"Laura, did you plug in everything from Max"? "Yea boss, pretty
interesting shit. There are probably twenty big wigs within the federal
government involved not including military or private sector so far. This thing
is going to be big". "Ok, keep working on the federal government
level for now, especially the legislative branch. Our first objective is to
expose whoever we can before they have a chance to kill the GECA
legislation". "I am going to try and get Dougy, Max, and Tom back
because if we can find out for sure the top six and
NSA,
CIA or FBI can't get them; I am prepared to let Max take them out".
"Ok boss, I agree with you, if we don't it’s going to be dooms day".
"These dick heads are really pissing me off". "Jane, get me
Grace Meng at the White House". "She's ready boss". "Grace,
did you have your people analyze all the stuff I sent? Did you look into
Amash"? "I have Pete miller's crew on it". "Good, I just
talked to him a minute ago". "CIA is on it too....and I peeled off
two of my best Secret Service guys to do some undercover".
"Who". "Joe Boswell and Bruce Lockwood". "Can we just
go arrest Amash". "Not yet Ron, but we're working on it".
"Can I just go kill him". "Not yet Ron but I'll let you
know". "Anything on Art Dutton and Sam Markey yet".
"Officially missing persons, no leads as to whereabouts, but we got a full
court press going". "Thanks Grace". Ron concluded. "Get me
A.J. will ya". "Got him Boss.....your welcome". Jane knew that courtesy
and good manners would always remain foreign concepts to Ron. "A.J. We've
got a serious situation here". "I can see that Ron, can you come over
here and bring me up to speed". "Yea, I'll be right there. See you in
a few". "Laura, Charlie, we're going to the Pentagon. Be ready in
five minutes, General A.J. Lukas is expecting us". Within twenty minutes
they were all sitting in the Generals office. "We are pretty sure it goes
as far as the Senate". Ron was beginning. General Lukas cut him off.
"Oh, fuck that, I know at least two of the joint chiefs and the Chair of
the armed forces committee.....maybe a few in President Kelly's staff......
Maybe her"! "You gotta be kidding me"? "No, I have been
following this shit for a month now, ever since the GECA got close to passing.
Everything you guys have gathered is spot on. Even the stuff your boy Jack says
he got from an egghead visit makes perfect sense. All the shit going down in
Turkey and West Africa. All the sudden disappearances of various GECA
proponents.......everything is making sense in the context of what you are
telling me. Now we have to devise a game plan of how to deal with it......and
that's not going to be easy.....not easy at all". "Any ideas off the
top of your head A.J." asked Ron "After all you are the five star
General". "Nope...... How about you guys"? Was the reply.
"Yes Rachel" the General said in response to a call from his assistant.
"Oh shit no...When....where? Ok...ok...I'll let him know".
"What's happening" Ron asked. "I'm afraid to tell you that they
found Art and Sam's bodies. Sorry Ron, I know you liked that kid and we both
thought the most of Art. You were right gas then poison injected between the
toes". "Any sign of the driver and security detail"? Asked Ron.
"Yes the body of Art's regular driver and secret service agent along with
an additional SS guy all killed the same way." "What about the D.C.
Cops". Ron asked. "Must have been phonies, no sign of them".
"So ether somebody killed the driver and SS guys first and had doubles in
the car......or, they were on the take, and got killed along with Art and
Sam". "Or the bad guys had something on the driver and SS guys but
didn't want any loose ends". "We're already following up with any
family, friends that sort of thing". "So you know Ron, DCPD is going
to lead the investigation, but we can pull rank with Sivalingam, and he is
pretty bummed. You know how tight he and Art were. He can say we suspect an
international terror organization, which is actually just what we do suspect so
NSA and CIA can step in". I can throw a couple of my best guys in with
them if you want". "That would make me feel a bit better" said
Ron. "Done" said A.J. "Man, I bet Siva is just pissed".
"Yea, he and Art went back a long way. Art was one smart capable fucking
dude. I kind of figured that Art would get the nod for Secretary of Defense and
Siva would get the V.P. spot". " I hear you Ron....loud and clear.
Siva sure would have made a better V.P. than that douch bag Jim Stanley".
"Well A.J. That's politics for ya. I know the game is played with a
different set of rules in the military but it's a similar game of
thrones". "Right you are son.....right you are".
Even
though there had been a plethora of extremely competent running mates in the
2028 elections including Sivalingam who like Dr. Sarah Jane Kelly had a science
background. Unfortunately for her the political climate at the time required
her to select a running mate from somewhere to the right of her. The previous
eight years had been under a New Democratic Republican Party (DRP)
administration and the populous had gotten use to centrist positions. While Dr.
Sarah Jane Kelly was mostly a centrist and was certainly pragmatic, she was a
member of the New Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) which was considered kind of
left by the general electorate. In order to seal the deal they needed a right
leaning DRP that could muster support from the middle of the road
conservatives. Several smart capable choices were vetted, but everyone seemed
to Dr. Kelly to harbor a pre conceived agenda or an element of swagger or
sometimes both and neither of which she liked. After too long she had told her
champagne managers to: "get me somebody who doesn't ware his balls on his
chest and have his head in his ass...... Every guy you bring me has an ego
problem, wants to alter my agenda and is a chauvinist asshole and I'm tired of
it. Ether get me a smart DRP who will play ball or get me a brain dead fucker,
who will do what we tell him and shut the fuck up. As things worked out, it was
the latter. Jim Stanley was the moderate two- term Governor of Arkansas. As her
campaign manager described "he is as plain Vanilla as they come". As
it turned out, he was prefect in that respect in that he really did not seem to
possess his own opinion and was quite amenable to simply defer to the judgment
of his superiors. He also was the Governor of Arkansas which was regarded as a Podunk,
hick state but none the less produced Bill and Hillary Clinton and Mike
Huckabee. He could bring the right leaning middle and do it without saying a
thing which was exactly what they wanted. There was no need for him to inspire
anyone, it was sufficient simply not piss anyone off or stir up any shit. The
only real problem as they all saw it was that he really was not so smart and it
would really suck if something happened to Dr Kelly and Jim Stanley actually
has to serve as president. "We will cross that bridge if we get to
it" .......let's just NOT get to it...and if we do.....we jump" was
what Keith Jones, Dr. Kelly's favorite political advisor said.
"Still,
I just can't handle that idiot Stanley. I mean its not as if he a bad guy, it's
just that he's........he's......such a stupid fuck". Don't worry A.J. He
at least knows enough to know what side his bread is buttered on and he will go
along with whatever President Kelly says".
"I
suppose you right Ron, but you go try and hold a joint chiefs of staff meeting
with the Commander in Chief and give an intelligence report on Somalia with
that dildo sitting in and you know that he does not even know what anybody is
talking about and he is making suggestions that are ludicrous and.........Jesus
.....drives me nuts. If I had to report to him I'd shoot myself".
"Christ A.J. Calm down. What do you want me to do now about the GECA and this
entire shit storm? Should I go bust heads"? "No, just keep gathering
data, you are not in the head busting business, but I am. I got an army
remember, and I do have at least a hundred really good men I know I can trust.
But you, my friend, are way better at gathering data. We have way too many
levels of BS to filter through. By the time I learn something from my guys it's
already been on CNN, NBC, CBS, in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the
National inquiries, and been commented on by that Hungarian bitch Arianna
Huffington. What I would really like is some hard evidence on Amash, Bates,
Franks, and all those dickless TRADs. I bet that Hockey Bitch Palin is in on
this shit too. Jesus, talk about wasted years, it's been sixteen fucking years
since oil could burn and she is still trying to get drilling in the ANNWR. I
can understand how the Alaskan public screwed up and elected her Governor.
Nobody knew her, but to turn around and elect het Senator eight years later
after she had been McCain's running mate and people actually herd her
speak......My god...those people must be as stupid as she is. So Ron I know you
are more of a statistics kind of organization and I really don't want to ask
you to get your hands dirty". "Don't insult me AJ, I came to you, and
I lost two people and have a three more being shot at. Besides this is an
environmental issue and that's what I do. If I wanted to keep my hands clean,
it's just way too late for that". "Right, ok Ron get me some fucking
dirt on all those guys. I can take them down but they won't stay down with some
really hard evidence connecting them to this conspiracy thing". Keep your
boys safe and out of harm’s way and get me the data"!! Siva, has equal
resources and we are connecting with some key folks we think we can trust all
over the world. Who do you trust in Turkey"? "Ahbeene Farhteen, he's
the head geek in NIO". Ron Answered. "Yep, I know him, good man. Ok
I'm going to roll. Where are you going? You need a security detail"?
"Laura and I are heading back to EAG headquarters and keep working".
Laura had let Ron and AJ chat while she ran through all the relive not data AJ
had granted her access to. She agreed that EAG was better at data mining but
the Military didn't have to be as good because they had billions of dollars and
had been at it for hundreds of years. "Quantity beats Quality
sometimes" Laura said to AJ when he insinuated that their intel sucked.
Besides no one in her position would ever pass up the opportunity have
unfettered access to computer data at the Pentagon. She told Ron "the
problem is they have so much data that they can't see anything. They need
analysis to analyze the analysis". "Well download as much of that
stuff as you can and work your magic when we get back to the office".
"I really want to sit down at my deck and think with a double Stoli in my
hand". "Ron, I'm going to give you six of my guys. They are top notch;
I trust them with my life, so should you. I want you to take them back to your
offices, and whoever needs to be covered coming or going just let Ned here know
and he'll take care of it". "Thanks AJ that's great. We will get as
much stuff as quick as we can. Do I funnel everything through you"?
"Yes, I was going to say Siva and Pete Miller but I guess we should assume
that everything could be infiltrated. Even thought they are both
trustworthy they might handoff something to the wrong person. Of course I might
do that too so what the fuck. Before you go I want to say something, where's
Laura"? "Right here General" Laura said as she came in. "
Ron, we go way back and you know we are on the same side on this one even
though that may not always have been the case. Now, I'm an army guy, but we
have the ear of national law enforcement, U.S. intelligence and at least some
international intelligence. Now Ron, I know you have spent your life saving the
world but as a General you learn to win a war one battle at a time. Do you get
what I'm saying"? "Yea AJ I believe I do". "So" AJ
continued "this battle is to stop whoever is illegally bribing,
blackmailing, coercing, threatening, or whatever they are doing to block the
GECA. If we can get it passed, that will be a successfully battle".
"I couldn't agree more AJ. See ya soon".
Back
at EAG headquarters Rob poured a stiff one, Laura went to work, and Dr Charles
Watson came in and said "Jesus
Ron, I heard about Art Dutton and Sam. What a tragedy. Who did it happen".
"Someone got to their driver and maybe their security. They gassed them
when they got in the car. Probably took all of twenty seconds. Then they
injected Rican between their toes. Total professional job, they never woke up,
they also killed the driver and two security guys".
"This
thing is getting big, isn't it". "Yea Charlie…. that it is. Have you
detected any emissions...anywhere"? "The usual hotspots, why"?
"Maybe someone just wants everyone to think its usual". "What do
you mean"? "Well, if I had a formula to change petroleum back to a combustible
substance, I would want to text it, and make sure it works, maybe even tweak it
and make it better. As we know, it's pretty easy to detect if someone is
burning fossil fuel in any quantity. So, I you wanted no one to know I would
test it in a usual hotspot where there is natural Co2 emission so no one would
notice. Are you with me Chuck". "Sure am, you want to know if there
is a way to determine if the usual hotspot is acting unusual.. Right"? ""Bingo"
said Ron. "Well boss I don't think it's been done, but I imagine I can
figure it out".
"So
what are you doing still here". "I am joining you with one of those
Stolis, you Bogart. Then I am going to do the impossible just like I always
do".
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