When such leaders act in opposition to their sworn duties, they compound injustice with disgrace. - Charles E. Gannon

Riordan surveyed the scene again. Knowing that it could not be other than perfect made it seem less remarkable, much in the way a constructed vista in a theme park could never quite compare with a less perfect one discovered in nature. This was merely a technological achievement, and the price of its perpetual perfection was its inability to inspire a sense of grandeur.

Your rabble's one unifying cry will be that there must be retribution. Most will call this 'justice.' A few of the most intemperate will also be the most honest; they will call it 'revenge.'

After all, an agent on the inside of a rival organization was always worth more, operationally speaking, than a loyal servitor in one’s own.