Instead of sending Emily to Leavenworth, they sewed up her arm and then the US Secret Service spent two painfully long days performing exceptionally cordial interrogation on her. They set Emily up in a stunningly luxurious, though securely locked, suite at the Hay-Adams. She could look out the window at the White House and see the large crews removing the helicopter wreckage, then replacing windows.
By the end of the third day, all the landscaping was back in place, including the replacement of several trees she’d clear-cut with the rotor blades and scorched with fire. And the painters were about a third of the way down the facade.
The debriefing had been terribly polite yet incredibly intense. A panel of four officers went over every action or reaction since the CNN crew had shown up in
