"Maybe, maybe not," said Caitlin. "What do I care? I want to clean house here."

"A noble sentiment in this town, one that has been many a politician's undoing." He winked at her. "Jason is small potatoes, believe me. O'Neil is big. He'll probably lead to someone big. Your overseas connection, for example. But here in this country this could go all the way to Delgado, which would be a national crisis on the order of the Stephanie Williams debacle."

"The VP for Fulton. I thought she died of an aneurism or something."

"We'll leave it at that. Ask your friend Asako O'Brian sometime. She has a longstanding gag order, so tell her I gave my permission. I'll give it to her in writing if she likes. She can give you a very personal account of what happened back then."

"Well, this goes back a lot further than Fulton. I have every reason to believe that Sergio Battaglia was very much involved with the Remington assassination, but I can't prove it. Nonetheless, I would like to bring him in and question him. I think that has to be done at your level, sir, because it's probably going to need a lot of clout. Battaglia is an international figure."

"One thing we know for sure is that Delgado was involved back then," said Dan. "He steamrollered the public with the official version that Bravo Islam was responsible for the Remington assassination. Bob Nash told me that he claimed to have an informant, a Vladimir Kalinin, connected with Purity, who knew this. Rumor has it that he testified to this fact."