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Alexandria Project, Chap. 18: More than One Can Play that Game

[ Thanks to Andy Updegrove for this
link. ]

“George Marchand sat uneasily in the witness chair of
the hearing room. On a raised platform in front of him stretched a
semicircular table, dotted with microphones. Behind those
microphones sat all but one of the members of the Inquisition also
known as the Congressional Subcommittee on Cybersecurity.

“Crouching like a pack of hyenas on the floor between the
subcommittee and witness tables were dozens of photographers,
polishing their lenses in anticipation of the kill. To George’s
right, bored looking C-SPAN video engineers peered at him from
beside their cameras, like vultures waiting for a dying wildebeest
to get on with it, already.

“George glanced at his watch with a sigh. It was almost 10:00,
and therefore time for today’s orgy of Congressional ego
gratification and wrathful citizenry appeasement to begin. George
hoped his introductory role in the hearing would be brief.”


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