"Filters?"

"Yes, Ms_Grant (Ms. Grant), after all, ......"

As she spoke, she looked at Catherine Grant, who was standing straight in a dark suit by the window, and the agent named McMillan suddenly regretted a little, as if he shouldn't have mentioned this kind of construction, "After all, this is a list that goes back more than thirty years, and the scale will be quite large, so ......"

Hearing the question of her subordinates, she was silent by the window for a few seconds, and Catherine Grant's expression was quickly filled with resoluteness and decisiveness, and the shallow nasolabial folds on her face became even tighter, and she immediately gave what she thought was the most appropriate and the most revealing stern answer:

"A list from thirty years ago? I know that very well, McMillan.

But now, we are facing a crisis situation that is so serious, you should already know that this is not the time to haggle with the technical department, what we need, what they have to make sure to get it done before the deadline! Yes, your build is good, what is the filter condition? Let me tell you and immediately convey that all those who have died will be excluded for the time being, and the rest will be brought into our investigation.

Got it, Mr. McMillan? ”

"Clear, understood, sir!"

As a veteran of Catherine Grant's stewardship, he knew very well that the strong woman had entered a seemingly calm state of rampage, and from his own analysis of the news he had seen, the YF-23 "ghost" leak was completely different from the past. There is a lot of right and wrong in that rotten place in the Middle East. At this time, mix it in again. It's not a fun thing for the United States of America!

With an all-out awareness, the agent almost straightened his back and crackled heels, shouted a shout of reply to the aggressive intelligence director, and then grabbed his tablet and rushed out of the office.

At noon EST in the United States, the surprise investigation of Northrop Grumman kicked off the federal government's investigation.

After less than a day of hasty preparations, marked by the CIA's large-scale involvement in the United States, a dragnet search was carried out against the "YF-23", an old model from 30 years ago. Soon it was completely rolled out within the United States.

At the same time as the surprise inspection of Northrop, because the prospect of the fighter research and development department of this century-old store is bleak, and only the merged Grumman is still engaged in the low-rate production of F-14 series fighters to meet the long-term needs of the aviation competition market, a large number of talents and even the entire project team of the company have been lost to other aviation and military industrial companies, so the CIA naturally went all out under the pressure of the president, and even included Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and a number of peripheral system suppliers in the investigation list. Of course, due to the limitations of manpower and reaction speed, it is more that the FBI personnel are making a big impact in this regard.

CIA, FBI, plus the Pentagon's secret service team approved by the president. For a time, the entire aviation industry in the United States was in a mess.

During the operation. The fact that the US national security apparatus, which has always kept a low profile, has not been slow to act with great fanfare, allowing lawmakers and business people to roar angrily around them, and it is clear that the significance of this co-operation is extraordinary, and the purpose of "investigating and collecting evidence" and "sending signals" is equally important.

In the midst of an unprecedented national image crisis, Woodrow Wilson's plan of action was to demonstrate sincerity so that the United States would not be overwhelmed with words, no matter what the final outcome might be.

The sudden action of the Americans has indeed had a considerable impact on the domestic aviation industry, and Northrop Grumman, which is the first to bear the burden, is almost in a semi-paralyzed state.

In the case of the complete seizure of the headquarters building, in the huge industry to which Northrop Grumman belongs, except for the Newport shipyard and the space technology division, which have little to do with aviation, all the company's digital servers, archives and related personnel have been put on the monitoring list, and the remaining F-14 "Tomcat" department in charge has been directly involved in the full investigation, and is highly suspected by the CIA like the electronic systems department, which is also difficult to get involved.

The situation has not yet been fully understood, and now that it has tormented itself, the actions of the United States may seem like a kind of self-derangement, but in reality it is not as simple as one might expect.

While the investigation was being launched in several parts of California at the same time, the Capitol Hill in Washington had also ended a hotly contested consultation meeting, and the members of the Senate and House of Representatives unsurprisingly responded to Woodrow Wilson with a fierce attack, and some people even bluntly claimed that the investigation order issued by the president was to smear the face of the United States, and that the international community had not yet reached a consensus on this matter, but was in a hurry to start an investigation on its own, was it tantamount to a disguised admission that "there is indeed a problem within the United States"?

Faced with questions from a group of lawmakers, the experienced Wilson did not directly participate in the inconclusive live argument, but threw the conundrum to the secretary of state and a few state aides who were present at the meeting, thus allowing him to spend his precious time talking to the few rationalists in Congress, and then hurried out of the room.

At a time like this, what's the point of staying on Capitol Hill in a tense atmosphere other than to cause more conflict?

Although Woodrow Wilson, as President of the United States of America, was really troubled by the separation of powers system in the United States, believing that this arrangement was really not conducive to dealing with sudden events.

It may be all well and good in normal times, but when something happens, the parliamentarians who represent the interests of their respective groups, classes, and financial families will always consider the interests they represent first, and completely ignore the overall situation of the country.

Wilson, who had been immersed in American politics for many years, was now very cool-headed, and knew that he didn't need to stay here and be hot-headed, or simply quarrel with congressmen who were eager to show his own, and the best thing to do now was to rush back to the White House and meet with the assembled officials of the National Security Assistant, the Department of Defense, and the CIA to study the problem.

The knee-jerk reaction to the so-called "U.S. government is suspected of selling YF-23" would be a denial or disbelief, but a person with a vicious eye like Woodrow Wilson would not.

For the United States, the real trouble with such an explosive arms deal scandal is not this, for example, it will hurt the so-called "face esteem" of the superpowers, which is simply irrelevant in Wilson's eyes; What worries His Excellency the current President is actually two more difficult aspects.

First of all, the fact that the Syrian rebels possess a large number of "ghost" fighters has been fully confirmed by reliable intelligence from various sources, and with Syria's current industrial and technological strength, it is absolutely impossible to create these fighters. On the other hand, however, it is unlikely that the United States will sell the YF-23, a weapon that does not seem obsolete today, to the Liberals - then the only reasonable inference must be that there is something seriously wrong with the US military equipment system, or at least there will be an internal ghost, otherwise how would the Liberals get these fighters out of thin air?

Although such an inference is quite reasonable, the possibility of its point will make every American secretly frightened, this country sandwiched between two oceans and seemingly safe and secure, the psychological needs of the people for security are naturally extremely high, and any slightest disturbance may affect the entire American economy and even trigger a political crisis, not to mention a leak in the field of national defense and security on which the United States depends.

Second, judging from the external environment, the act of providing the Liberal Party with advanced fighter jets will inevitably cause an uproar in various countries and even fundamentally shake the international security framework that has gradually developed and consolidated since the end of the Cold War.

And any such change will inevitably be detrimental to the United States of America, which has been plagued by terrorism for many years, and is now struggling to establish good relations with other countries and launch a series of cooperation in the new international strategic balance to jointly counter the threat of extremist forces.

Today's United States is no longer a single-level world leader with a large number of responders, and must also seriously consider the positions of other major powers, especially Soviet Russia and China, when formulating policies and implementing actions.

All in all, such a thorny matter that suddenly appeared must be clarified as much as possible, and the next diplomatic efforts must be based on it!

After thinking all the way in Lincoln's car, when Wilson returned to the White House, a small consultation meeting was immediately held.

In the lawn-facing conference room on the first floor of the White House, the participants expressed their opinions under the chairmanship of His Excellency the President, after all, it has been a day since the incident itself broke out, and during this time, the relevant government departments, including the Pentagon, have not been idle; After exchanging information and acknowledging that Woodrow Wilson's decision was entirely appropriate, the officials gathered around the oval conference table began to discuss the direction of the investigation. (To be continued......)