Transcript of an illegal recording done in a waiting room of the Ministry of the Interior

  Participants: unknown – transcribed by machine

  Classification: sealed by court order pending a legal challenge against the inadmissibility of documents transscribed by machines as legal evidence of the defense

  #1: Hi, coffee?

  #2: Thanks, yes I need it

  #3: Sure

  #1: How are things at home.

  #2: Sleeping on the couch. Trip to Egypt is cancelled. My wife does not want to believe in monsters.

  #3: Ouch

  #1: Indeed. Why is legal here? Not that we don’t appreciate you, but this is unusual.

  #3: He’s got ideas. Understandable even.

  #2: Yes.

  #1: Now? Please tell me I am suspecting wrong. When was he told?

  #3: 90 minutes before the announcement

  #1: WTF?

  #3: The old one thought he wanted her desk. Didn’t trust him.

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  #2: I can’t say she was wrong on his ambitions.

  #1: That explains the nature of the material I was told to cover.

  #2: You didn’t know.

  #1: Nope

  #2: O glory and sunshine

  #3: He thinks they are traitors.

  #2: Are they?

  #3: Not doable. You can’t get people for not telling the government something unless there is a specific law. Not even not telling them that our most fundamental assumption about the universe is wrong.

  #1: We will need to continue the projects. You’ll be charged with finding some reason.

  #3. Already done. A state of national defense helps immensely. They are holding assets vital to national defense after all. I didn’t even have to knock out my sense of ethics.

  #2: Anything sensitive in the papers?

  #1: The source, technically.

  #2: Even I don’t know that.

  #1: There is nothing to know. We got it from the Mossad. The company in Russia was their front.

  #3: So they did penetrate theirs.

  #1: That’s a plausible assumption. But still only an assumption.