Department of Special Weapons

The Twelve: A Novel (Book Two of the Passage Trilogy)

Justin Cronin

Page 51 of 593 (Amazon Kindle Version)


They always moved at night.

The briefing with the Joint Chiefs had not gone well, though Guilder hadn't expected it to. To begin with, there was the whole "problem" of Special Weapons. The military brass had never been particularly comfortable with, or especially clear on, what DSW did, or why it existed outside any military chain of command, drawing its budget from, of all things, the Department of Agriculture. (Answer: Because nobody gave a shit about agriculture.) The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant, and as far as the brass could see, Special Weapons answered to no one, its pieces cobbled together from a dozen other agencies and private contractors. It resembled nothing so much as a game of sidewalk three-card monte, the queen always moving, not quite where you thought it would be.








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Season 4, Episode 21

Daybreak, Part 2 (3)

Air Date

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Kara "Starbuck" Thrace: There must be some kind of way out of here.








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Other posts by me on this topic includes: https://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-twelve-emil-jellinek.html
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/11/department-of-special-weapons.html


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The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 35

I Sing the Body Electric

Aired May 18, 1962 on CBS

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The Twelve: A Novel (Book Two of the Passage Trilogy)

Justin Cronin

Page 52 of 593 (Amazon Kindle Version)


So it was that Deputy Director Horace Guilder (were there any actual directors anymore?) had found himself sitting before the Joint Chiefs (enough stars and bars around the table to start a Girl Scout troop) to offer his official assessment of the situation in Colorado. (Sorry, we made vampires; it seemed like a good idea at the time.) A full thirty seconds of dumbfounded silence ensued, everyone waiting to see who would speak next.

"Let me see if I have you right," the chairman intoned. He leaned his folded hands over the table. Guilder felt a bead of sweat drop from his armpit to slither the length of his torso. "You decided to reengineer an ancient virus that would transform a dozen death row inmates into indestructible monsters who live on blood, and you didn't think to tell anybody about this?"

Well, not exactly "decided." Guilder hadn't been with DSW at the outlet. He'd come in at the change of administration, so much money and so many man-hours already down the rat hole that he couldn't have put the brakes on if he tried. Project Noah was under a chain of command so obscure, even Guilder didn't know where it had originated - probably NSA, though he'd gotten the sense it might have gone even higher than that, even to the White House itself. But sitting before the Joint Chiefs, he understood that this distinction was pointless. Guilder had spent three decades working in agencies where so much was a secret that nobody was actually responsible for anything. Ideas seemed to flower of their own accord. "We did what? No, we didn't." And so, off into the shredder it went. Which was exactly what was about to happen to Special Weapons; probably even to Guilder himself.

But in the meantime, there was blame to be doled out.








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The American Presidency Project

Barack Obama

XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - 2017

Remarks Following a Meeting With Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Arlington, Virginia

January 28, 2009

Well, sorry we're running a little bit late. I want to, first of all, thank all the men and women in uniform who are represented here. They are the best that this country has to offer. And the first thing that I said to the Joint Chiefs in this meeting was how grateful we are for their service. The sacrifices that they and their families make are what are responsible for our freedoms that sometimes we take for granted.

And as Commander in Chief, one of my principal goals during my Presidency is going to be to make sure that they have the resources and the support that they need to carry out the critical missions that keep our Nation safe each and every day.



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The Simpsons Season 1 Episode 12

Krusty Gets Busted

Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Apr 29, 1990 on FOX

Quotes

Chief Wiggum: So, Simpson, which one is it?

Homer: (Giggles and Laughs) Well, if the crime is making me laugh, they're all guilty!



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