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senior citizens I got working for me.тАЭ

She stops at the dull gray entrance to the Federal Building and this time puts
her hand on his arm. тАЬJake,тАЭ she says quietly. тАЬYou know why youтАЩre on this case,
donтАЩt you.?тАЭ

тАЬIтАЩm not civil service?тАЭ

тАЬYeah. That, and youтАЩre a real short timer.тАЭ

тАЬExpendable?тАЭ

тАЬIf something goes wrong and we let the fuckers, yeah.тАЭ

A secure elevator takes them up to a high ceilinged office in the Justice
Department suite. Tall windows let cool morning light in to fight with the
fluorescents.

They are perfunctorily greeted and seated by Arnie Goldschmidt, the Senior
Deputy U.S. Attorey. He is a plump, pink man in his forties from Little Rock whose
curly red hair and cherubic face belie what Lindstrom, who has worked with him
before, has described to his wife as the loving kindness of a Great White. тАЬJesus
God,тАЭ Goldschmidt says in a quiet, conversational way, directing his attention to
McCatters, тАЬLindstrom does himself proud on this one and now you want the whole
goddamn U.S. Government to take a dive with the Ninth Circuit. I am no way gonna
stand up on my hind legs in front of Skinner or Matsuko or whoever judgeтАЩs got the
duty and tell them the U.S. Attorney and the INS and the whole fucking Justice
DepartmentтАЩs gotten religion and been, you know, bom again and now wants to fight
habeases like a case of jock itch and keep custody of whatтАЩs gotta be the biggest
pain in the ass since the Madonna kidnapping hoax just because the arresting agentтАЩs
afraid the allenтАЩs gonna get picked to pieces if we donтАЩt keep him bottled up
somewhere.тАЭ

Lindstrom canтАЩt help admiring GoldschmidtтАЩs use of language to express his
power.

тАЬYou knowтАЩs well as I do,тАЭ the attorney continues, тАЬthat we got no real policy
direction on this shit with the extraterrestrials. State DepartmentтАЩs taken a bye and
shipped the whole frigginтАЩ issue to the U.N. where itтАЩll sit in the Security Council
until IтАЩm back in the hills breeding razorbacks, and Hopkins is a Truly Great
Attorney General who all of us in the field admire to distraction but he hasnтАЩt got
balls enough during the first senatorial election year in the 21st Century to stand up
to the President and State and tell тАШem this is not solely and exclusively an internal
security problem for the U.S. and A., and so we and everybody else in the
Department are by God stuck with your Al or Earl or whatever the fuckтАЩs тАШis name
until heтАЩs sprung on a habeas and gets the hell outta our hair, and as far as IтАЩm
concerned the only real question is who takes delivery and how fast can we get him
there.тАЭ

McCatters waves her hands in front of her blouse, palms down, as if pushing