>Joe arrived shortly before Spacedock's XO did. He was comfortable reading
>something on his PADD...
>
>"Mr. Garibaldi," Dais said as he stepped into the area. "I hope your
>information search was a little more successful than mine was."
>
>"Probably not, Commander. However, I know it was more entertaining. I did,
>at least, have a nice conversation with a judge that I know, so I can safely
>say that we have a material witness order." Joe replied.
>
>"What did you find out?" he continued.
>
>Dais started with a sigh. "I must admit that I did not find out as much as
>I thought I would. To start, our friend must have decided to do some sight
>seeing along his way here."
>
>That got Joe's attention. "Signtseeing..."
>
>"Well, I am not sure it is of the best sort. While he arrived at Deep Space
>9 directly from Bajor as one would expect. He left DS9 and headed for
>Viar's Oasis, not one of the most reputable vacations spots in this
>Quadrant. He spent some time there before continuing his journey. From
>there he went to Alpha Centauri and arrived here shortly thereafter."
>
>"That is interesting. He stopped by two good spots to meet with smugglars,
>theives, and where you can do what you want to without fear of heavy law
>evforcement coming down on you.... What else did you find?"
>
>"After getting that information, I decided to see what I could find out
>about him from the Federation database. Amazingly, the files were sealed,
>and you probably have a good idea by whom."
>
>"I bet I can guess it in 3 tries..."
>
>"It would seem that our cover-up theory might have something to it," Dais
>said with a nod. "It seems the Bajoran Ambassador is able to make changes
>to our database. Anyway, from their I put in a request from Mr. Rivik for a
>biographical file on him. Mr. Rivik did follow through with a file 20
>minutes later, but I have a fealing that it is not the complete file. It
>looks the like G-rated version to me."
>
>With that, Dais handed his PADD with the downloaded file to Garibaldi and
>allowed him to look it over.
>
>Joe took a moment or two to review the materials that were on the PADD. It
>was all too good to be true. The cover up had started, and they were just
>about a step ahead of the bad guys. If they were good, and moved quickly
>there was a chance that they could stay a step ahead.
>
>"Looks like it is a good thing we got the material witness order," Joe said
>after finishing the reports. "I think we should start off quite polite...
>smile and friendly greetings. Once we start easy then we blitz'em. I will
>inform him of his rights. Then, you start by asking a few simple questions.
> Nothing really deep, just general type questions as if you rae trying to
>see to it that he gets off. When you are about to finish up, I hit them
>with the harder questions, and finish with the big gun- the witness order.
>From there we leave and watch the comotion and follow it to where it
>leads..."
>
>The Trill nodded. "It sounds like a plan to me. Was there anything else you think
>we should go over before the meeting?"
>
"Not that I can think of. Anything you think we should be doing that we have not
talked about??"
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