>Of equal concern to her was another issue. This she decided to raise.
"Sir, I am getting the impression that this operation occurred without the full
>knowledge or involvement of either Special Operations or Intelligence," she
>said. "Was there a reason for this?"
>
"They were kept in the dark as a contingency plan. Investigations like these
will undoubtedly hit a political nerve or two. In order to prevent, or at least
delay, the politicos from interfeering I kept both of you in the dark. If keeping
things quiet was not enough to prevent the politicians and the targets of the
investigations from putting an end to the probes or me, I needed people who would take
the information and use it. People who have the reputation and integrity to use the
information for it's proper use. That being to clean up Starfleet and put the corrupt
in jail. I could not put people at risk in the attempt to fix the problems in the
fleet, and not have a contingency plan in case the situation went south. Their risk,
their effort, can not be wasted by careless planning."
>> By the time the three had finished their chat, the food arrived and Lasiter
>> called in the two presenters.
>>
>> "Commander Roeder, is you will please go first.", Lasiter said taking a sip
>> from his coffee.
>>
>> "Aye, sir. Good morning, Admirals. The investigations that Special
>> Projects has been condicting are related to suspicious activities in or
>> around the police actions and the organized factions of Starfleet. We have
>> begun low level negoations with the 'warring factions', if you will, on a
>> number of planets where Starfleet is currently engaged in a police action.
>> These negoations are targeted to help bridge the gap between the parties
>> involved. To date the efforts have made some progress such as temporary
>> cease fires and prisioner exchanges. These minor successes have spawned
>> higher level talks, and have started to ease tensions. It will be sometime
>> before more substantial progress can be made, but that is the nature of
>> diplomacy.
>>
>> However, we have found that on at least two of the police actions
Starfleet is being used to eliminate political opposition. What enabled this
situation to happen is quite interesting. Forces on the ground are getting the
bulk of their intell from the local planetary governments. They supply intell
>> indicating that there are rebel strong holds in particular areas, and SF
>> forces conduct a mission based on vague rules of engagement and the
provided intell. After Starfleet softens up the area with it's forces, planetary
>> forces then rush in assuming control of the area. Starfleet is being
>> relieved before it can properly secure the area. This gives the
governmental forces a chance to do whatever they want to stomp out any opposition.
>> Operations like this are being allowed because regional commanders are
>> allowing it to happen. In one particularily bad case, the problem runs
>> through teh entire chain of command from ground forces commander right
up to the Area Commander, a full Admiral.", Roeder paused to allow for coment.
>>
>> "How do you know this?", Lasiter asked. More for the benefit of Kitanya
>> and Carrhae than for himself.
>>
>> "We have undercover personnel within the chain of command at several
>> levels. This includes in field units deployed in forward areas, to major
>> unit HQ, right up to theater command and Regional Command. For awhile,
I was
>> sent in as an under cover operative, and I have seen this first hand.
There
>> are plenty who oppose such action, but are not in a position to stop it."
>>
>> Lasiter looks at the ladies present.
>
>t'Llhweiir began to feel a cold dread about what she was hearing. Her face
>could have been carved from alabaster from the absolute absence of emotion,
>however, as she listened silently. Yet, she knew that Lasiter would read
>through it.
>From what Kit had observed in her own field inspections, she was not
completely caught of guard, but she was shocked by the scale of it. She
could smell the Rihannsu's fear, though ht vulcanoid face showed nothing.
Kit's face remained impassive, but her tail began to twitch. She forced it
to stop. "Why?" she asked simply. "What would the rrregional commanderr
gain frrrom perrrmitting this?" She wondered if it was simple bribery, but
it seemed to large in scale for money to be involved, unless it was
extremely large sums. Or did the planetary governments have something on
the commanders?
"That is a good question, Admiral. We have found that the reasons for permitting such
activity varry form individual to individual. Some were paid off with money or
promotion, and others appear to be just plain mean. But to the point of your
question, the regional commander appears to have been bought, both in terms of
currency and in black mail. Just what could be so bad for a Starfleet Admiral to be
bribed like that... we think we have an idea. ", Roeder replied.
"What do we know of this regional commander?", Lasiter asked.
"His name is Vice Admiral Victor Lanceton. Born on Targus III. Entered the
Academy at age 18, and was an average cadet. His service record is largely
unremarkable, holding mostly Starbase posts until he was a lt. commander. It was at
this point that he was assigned to an excort. There his average career continued,
until his ship responded to an emergency on a frontier colony. The reports are vague,
too vague for poor record keeping. We have reason to believe that something happened
there. Something that could be used as blackmail."
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