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Stephen Latent’s right ear was occupied with the president of the United States who was barking in anger, when his left ear picked up flash traffic from an agent codenamed Savannah, who had just engaged and possibly killed several uniformed CIA officers. Latent pulled the red phone away from his ear. “Oh Christ,” he said. It came out as a whisper.
He interrupted the president, “Mr. President, Mr. President! We’ve got live fire. CIA operatives are engaging our agents who are returning fire.”
The president was furious. “How could this be happening?” he screamed. “What in the hell kind of FBI director are you?”
But Latent was having none of it and yelled back over the screaming president.
“Listen to me, you jackass! You authorized the Fourteenth Protocol? You authorized those assholes
