After patiently listening to Nelly's report, Brooklyn put forward a few suggestions, and after discussing with Nelly, Nelly took back the plan to revise it.

Brooklyn is immersed in a sea of documents and transforms into a humanoid signing machine. In the evening, after dinner, Brooklyn was a little hesitant to hold his phone.

He wanted to call Burke, apologize for yesterday's attitude, and discuss Robert Gordon's hiring of a murderer.

But when he thought of his performance last night, he wanted to bury his head in the sofa and fill the ostrich. It's so embarrassing!

After hesitating for half an hour, Brooklyn grew serious. He took a deep breath, dialed Burke's phone, and pressed the dial button directly.

The phone rang as usual, and it was answered as soon as it rang.

"Haha!" Still with his trademark hearty laugh, Burke asked as if nothing had happened

"Brooklyn, what's the matter?" Members revealed the identity of the gunman's employer. ”

"It's Robert Gordon of Yale." There was a moment of silence on the phone before Burke's voice rang.

"Oh? How is this determined? He didn't sound surprised, but Brooklyn had reservations about his 'no surprises', given that he was a ruthless man with precise control over all the muscles in his face.

"David, my friend asked." Brooklyn replied honestly

"On the rooftop." There was a sound of footsteps on the other side, and then a slight sound of wind, and Burke seemed to walk from indoors to outside, and then his voice rang out

"That's what the [Patriot] employee said?"

"Can you believe it?" Brooklyn was stunned and frowned.

"What do you mean?"

"Robert Gordon wanted to fish in troubled waters, and the gunman who attacked the director of the NYPD was not hired by Robert Gordon. He saw someone hire gunmen to attack the director of the NYPD and the head of the murderous team, so he 'ordered' to hire a murderer to kill me. I think this logic makes sense. Brooklyn is indeed more inclined to believe the news because it was David, but that doesn't mean he hasn't screened it at all.

Logically, it makes sense. If there is no logical flaw in the event of an event, and the cause and purpose are reasonable, then the credibility of the event is already very high.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that someone who didn't know Brooklyn at all was idle and bored, and he placed an order to hire a gunman to shoot a man named Brooklyn Lee.

That night, of course, there was such a possibility. But what are the odds of this possibility? Is it necessary to consider this possibility?

"Robert Gordon is a professor." Burke said unhurriedly

"I stayed at Yale since I graduated from school and didn't work outside. He is a very respected professor at Yale. ”

"You don't think it's him?" Brooklyn asked rhetorically.

"Nope. I'm just thinking about the possibility that it's not him. Burke Road

"I helped you contact a few friends to ask about it, and they didn't have any clues. The employer is very hidden, and there is a possibility that it is Robert Gordon. ”

And he did have a reason to do so. But why did he stop at the end? ”

"It's not like the style of those old villagers. If you want to do it, that group of villagers will definitely do it to the end. It's impossible to stop halfway. ”

"I thought about it." Brooklyn Road

"Maybe someone stopped him, or maybe he found it in his conscience and didn't want to continue to break the rules." Brooklyn told a bad joke that wasn't cold.

Although there are many assassinations in federal politics, and federal politicians are accustomed to going off the rails if they can't do it by normal means, most people will not choose assassination as a means to win the political battle.

This is the unspoken rule that everyone defaults to, which can be framed, faked, public opinion, and rumor-mongering, but cannot be destroyed humanely.

After all, this is a civilized society, not the barbaric era of thousands of years ago. Destroying an opponent by force and humanity is an act of breaking the rules, which will put everyone at risk, unite and take the lead in killing the person who breaks the rules.

If we do not resort to regular means and resort to force to win victory, then in fact, there is no need for the existing series of laws and order to exist, and the military will directly drive the aircraft carrier, dispatch troops to aim their guns at the White House, and bomb whoever opposes it.

That's not a political struggle, that's an armed rebellion!

"Those townsfolk don't have such a high level of consciousness." Burke seemed to be immune to bad jokes, and analyzed it seriously

"They are all tendons, they will not stop, and they will never admit their mistakes."

"That's someone who stopped it." Brooklyn said.

"Do you know anyone associated with the [Patriot]?" Burke asked rhetorically

"According to the rules of [Patriot], the power of the client is directly proportional to the status he has in [Patriot], and the higher the power, the higher the status."

"Robert Gordon didn't work outside the world, but he taught many of his students very well, and he had a lot of status at Yale." After a moment's thought, Burke continued

"About the same as me." Burke Forsman, a contemporary of John Manning and Lyleigh Crewe, served as a state Supreme Court justice, lectured at Harvard after retirement, and was extremely well-connected.

If you compare the Harvard School to an empire, John Manning is the emperor of the empire, and Burke Forsman is the prime minister of the empire.

Burke said that Robert Gordon was on his par, which meant that Robert Gordon was the prime minister of the Yale school.

Who can intercept such a mission posted by Robert Gordon? Brooklyn carefully flipped through the people he knew, and naturally thought of two people.

One is Mark Milley Aldington and the other is retired Anthony Kennedy. Anthony Kennedy was a former justice of the Supreme Court, a swing vote among the nine justices, and he was highly respected and well-connected.

The man didn't appear very often in the Harvard school and sounded like a marginalized figure, but Brooklyn suspected that John Manning had done it on purpose.

If Anthony Kennedy had been involved in the daily life of the Harvard School, with his status and influence, he would have caused great trouble for John Manning.

When the two elders are in agreement, it is good to say that if there is a disagreement, it may lead to a split. Anthony Kennedy had the strength to compete with John Manning.

However, for the sake of the unity of the Harvard faction, he took the initiative to choose to back down. His representatives have supported Brooklyn at conferences.

But that's about it. Brooklyn and Anthony Kennedy had never even met. Maybe he will stop the mission for the sake of the Harvard faction, but if it is really him, why has he been indifferent after learning that Yale has done something to Brooklyn?

Brooklyn felt a bit of a stretch. As for Mark Milai. As chairman of the Joint Federal Staff, he also surpassed Robert Gordon in status.

In a way, he even had a higher status than John Manning. If you really think about it, this one needs to be compared with the top handful of people in the entire judicial system.

The composition of the Union's military power is very complex, and it can be roughly understood that Congress decides whether to wage war, the president controls the military, and the Joint Staff Council has actual military command.

If the Federation wants to start a war, it will first be discussed and decided by Congress, and after the Congress votes to start a war, it will declare war on foreign countries, and then the president will sign an order to send troops to foreign wars, and after the order is signed, it will be sent down to the army, and the Joint Staff Council will actually take command.

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the Federal President repeatedly bypassed Congress to declare war on the outside world, completely depriving Congress of its control over the war, and in order to limit the president's right to military action, Congress enacted the War Powers Act in 1973.

The law requires the president to notify Congress 48 hours before sending troops, and prohibits troops from stationing troops abroad for more than 60 days without Congress's permission, or they must be evacuated within 30 days.

But in reality, this is just the result of a balance between Congress and the president. For modern warfare, 60 days is enough to end a skirmish, and even with the ability of the Union army, especially the suppressive power shown in a certain Gulf War, 60 days is enough for the Federation to destroy a small country.

The White House responded to Congress by issuing a 32-page report in response to the Congress's cross-border war against Lbiya, and Congress demanded an explanation for the ultra vires, and the former president himself argued that 'the military action did not result in casualties, so it was not a war.'

No matter how the Congress and the president play the game, no matter who has the right to declare war, once war starts, the command power will inevitably be in the hands of the Joint Staff Council.

And Mark Millay is the chairman of the Joint Staff. The power of this position may not be great in peacetime, but once it reaches wartime, the power of this position will be magnified to infinity.

And with the attitude of the federal global law enforcement, there is almost no non-wartime talk in the federation. Right now, the Federation is actually wartime, but the war is not burning on the mainland.

In other words, the Chairman of the Joint Staff has always had very, very, very much power in the Federation.

But why did he terminate the mission released by Robert Gordon? Brooklyn felt like his brain wasn't enough.

He didn't have a good relationship with Mark Milley.

"Mark Milley Aldington?" Burke uttered the name, apparently confused as well—and this time he didn't hide his doubts.

"Maybe you should ask through your girlfriend." Burke joked. Brooklyn didn't think the joke was funny at all.

His attitude towards Mark Milai was that the well water did not interfere with the river water, that he was not close to him, that he did not provoke, and that he was indifferent. If it was really Mark Mie who did it, then he must have a plan!

A person who may hide his PTSD for the sake of power, and may even refuse to admit the truth about killing his wife, would do such a thing cannot be explained by a simple sentence of 'I love my daughter too much to bear to see her hurt'.

Brooklyn felt a little pain in her head and was a little irritable. He got up with his phone and walked around the study, relieving his anxiety, grabbing the coffee cup, lifting it several times, and finally putting it down again.

"How's that proposal?" Brooklyn asked. All he could think of, or what he expected, was the proposal for a court-martial, to which Mark Mee had mentioned.

"Can't get through." Burke understood, and replied

"That proposal was a trap." A trap indeed. The limited opening of military tribunals may seem like a way to weaken the military's independence and involve the regular judicial system, but in reality it is also allowing the military's tentacles to spread to the outside world.

"This is a fundamental question, and it is impossible to pass." Burke Road. The fundamental problem, that is to say, it should be clear to Mark Milley that this proposal is unlikely to have the support of the Harvard faction.

That's not for the proposal. Ruling out a false answer, Brooklyn couldn't be happier.

So far, he doesn't know exactly what Mark Mie is doing this for, that's the most terrifying thing.

He wanted to think that Mark Milley simply didn't want his daughter Anne to be sad, but he couldn't convince himself.

But at the same time, he wondered, could it be that he was too suspicious? Especially considering your current mental state, this is not impossible.

Brooklyn kicked the table in annoyance, grinning in pain. The condition is affecting his judgment!

"I'll ask him." Brooklyn poured himself a cup of coffee, and Gudong asked as he gasped

"What if Robert Gordon strikes again?" He's certainly not asking Robert Gordon what to do if he hires a murderer again, he's asking Burke to speak on behalf of John Manning.

"Isn't New York going on a lot lately?" Burke said with a smile

"Judge Brenner of the Second Circuit heard that he was about to retire." Brooklyn thought for a moment and nodded.

He was barely able to accept the result. In the past, they might have attracted Yale's attention by destroying Brenner, and Yale would have joined the New York melee.

Now that Burke has given an answer, they don't have to worry about Yale joining in, which will lead to the destruction of the situation.

As for who will be Brenner's successor after he goes down, I believe that Harvard and Yale will negotiate a suitable candidate.

"I was shot twenty times, and under normal circumstances, I was already dead." Brooklyn reminded

"I'm alive because I'm lucky."

"There weren't many Yale people in the Second Circuit House in the first place." Burke replied. Brooklyn bowed slightly, but was not satisfied.

He continued

"I had a lobe of my lung removed. I can't see anything now, when I'm old, maybe I don't have to be old, as long as I reach your age, my life will be very miserable. Burke muttered for a moment

"Makes sense. The lack of a lung lobe will seriously affect the person's respiratory function, once it encounters a cloudy day, the air pressure decreases, and there will be a feeling of not being able to breathe, just like having filial piety. It's painful indeed. ”

"Yes, especially since New York is a coastal city." Brooklyn chimed in. Burke pondered for a moment and said

"I remember e.. It seems that there has never been an appellate judge stationed in the Circuit Court? ”

"Yes, e.. Since its construction, there has never been an appellate judge. Brooklyn replied immediately.

As for whether it's true or not...... Even if there was one before, it doesn't anymore.