Chapter 221

When Michael Free dressed for work from morning he felt very good. He had fired all of the informants in his computer division and was pressing criminal charges against them. He had asked the Attorney General to file complaints against the agencies that tapped into his computer illegally. Normally this was to remain confidential within the branches of government. The graduate students, who were working on the computer, were not members of the government. While they were out at night eating at the right restaurants, and drinking at the right clubs, word got out to the newspapers, and the broadcast news organizations, by morning. He read the Washington Post story of the NSA's 100 dirtiest tricks, which on the front page. It helped to fuel the frenzy of the reporters descending upon the FBI building, wanting a comment. The standard answer was, "We cannot comment on an ongoing investigation." All the other agencies, which were under investigation, came up with the same an