Sam Hanna (sam_hanna) wrote in omega_reality, @ 2012-10-15 14:51:00 |
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RP: EVERYONE
Who: Everyone
Where: Secure conference room at the team center
When: 0900
Summary: Sam schedules a meeting about safety
Sam had told everyone at the morning training to come to the conference room before the start of the work day. He had made sure to let both G and Morgan know what was going on about the emails, but it wasn't just about that. The emails were just the symptom and he hoped to stop problems before they started. To make sure that they were all on the same page, he even asked Vance to join them.
"Please, come in and closed the door. There are chairs by the table, please take one if you're near one, or let someone else sit. Whoever is standing move back." He wanted to see everyone while he spoke and if Morgan or G had something to say, they would have the same complete view. In fact, it was funny how the four of them took opposite sides of the room, and all four of them were standing. When they were all inside, he nodded toward. "Can you close it?"
Vance pressed the button under the table where he was sitting and then nodded. "You can start, Mr. Hanna."
"All right, there seems to be a lot of confusion and I thought I'd clear it up, before any negative consequences. I'm going to run down through a lot of things. When we're done, you can ask all the questions you have. Let's start with the communication. As the Director said in the emails before we came here, the internet isn't safe. Your emails aren't safe. Your web browsing isn't safe. We are on a military base, which means the army sees everything you see. There is no way to stop that from happening; nothing our techs can do to stop that. Even if you send an email with the zmail address from outside the base, the email is still readable if someone reads it while on base, and by the way, you'd be giving out all those emails. Therefore, do not use them at this time. This isn't different from before. This is why if you look for a restaurant, you look at five of them with different types of food, different locations, different ways to get there. When you pick one, you still google all five. The same for stores, museums, anything. This is why we send information about routine stuff that they would know anyway, but we do not send emails about specifics. Yes, they know we start working and training at oh-nine hundred, but they don't know what we do. There's no point for us to hide when we start, because a little observation would tell them," he said.
"Because of that, email is not the preferred form of communication. This is why we used to have parties last year, people could talk in person. We spend most of our days together, that's when the talking should happen." Of course, that should be enough to tell people that talking should happen only in some places and with precautions, but he knew better. "Speaking in person is problematic too. It's why we had scramblers in the basements with no windows. If you speak outside, there could be someone who reads lips or a sat mike. If you speak inside, go for that empty basement. Make sure your windows are covered or boarded. Bring something to cover the sound like really loud radios. Unless you are in an underground room with no window and a scrambler, then what you say can be heard. It's as simple as that. We do have some secure rooms in this building. It was our priority to ensure that they were working. If you're talking in one of those rooms, then you're safe. If you are talking anywhere else, then you are taking a chance. We will try to get houses safe, but we can't really order a bunch of scramblers without raising suspicions. Once again, this is nothing new since it was the way to communicate before we left last November. Yes things were different while on the run, but that doesn't change what you do on a military base."
Sam was ready to bet that people would ignore it in a few weeks. It wasn't like they hadn't done this last year after all. "Now, security for the homes. Since it doesn't seem clear, let me simplify things. The people in charge of house security make the rules. You should cover all contingencies. What if one is out, two, three, four? You plan for all scenarios, no matter how unlikely they are. If you have trouble doing that, talk to me and I'll work with you. It's why I'm here," he said.
"Now, this is never an issue on non-holiday weekdays, because everyone's schedule is pretty determined. It is an issue for Friday nights and the weekend. Some of us have dinners. There are several families, living in different homes. Let's make this easy. We have dinner together every Sunday. We will be up for things later, like a game at 2000, but during the afternoon, it's unlikely that we are available. This means that the Director, Claudia, Margaret and Cooper are alone. We will make long term arrangement before the end of this meeting. If plans change, then it's your responsibility to let us know, and yes, Director, we do need to know your schedule as well." He knew there would be plenty of discussion about that later, but he wanted to deal with most of the problems.
"Now, we've spoken about going out. Every and each time you leave the base, you should approach it as an op. You are not going out to have fun; you are going out to run an op, and hopefully have fun too. The more people, the more complicated the op, but it doesn't change the fact that EVERY time you leave the base, you are on a mission. If you decide to invite a large group, it is your responsibility to take care of the outing. Now, if you do plan an op, what does it mean? It means that you have to cover every scenario, every problem, every emergency. More plainly, first, figure out who's going. You want to send an email saying 'we were planning an outing to watch a game at this time', then fine. See how many are interested, and when you know who's interested, you talk to them. Second, you create teams. When you do that, you always identify your assets and make sure that they are protected the most. Yes, some lives are worth more than others, and no, they aren't your spouse, significant other, child, aunt, uncle, mother, father. We have assets that need to be protected at all cost, even if it means the death of a loved one. If you organize it, it will be your decision that might lead people to die, maybe people you love. If you can't live with that, then don't organize anything. If you ever let an asset die to protect whoever you love, I will shoot you myself for treason." He stopped and looked around, making sure that people understood how serious he was about this. "There will be no excuses on this point, ladies and gentlemen. In case you still don't know who this people are, let me make it easier. Vance, Callen, Morgan, Cooper, Vail, Beale, Jones, Kinney, Baum. You protect them with your lives and the lives of the ones under your command. You protect them with everything you've got. You all know that those children are all related to me, and the people in questions will object, but yes, the nine people I've mentioned are even more important than the children. If you can't stomach letting someone else die to protect them, then don't be in charge. Now with the teams, you split them in small groups to make them easier to run in New York city streets. You do have the 1:1 ratio, but you need to use common sense too. You can't put two high targets together. Now I'd say that you should never pair Morgan and Callen, but they outrank me, so I'll leave that to common sense again. Also if you aren't qualified, you aren't qualified. Pending doesn't mean you can play with the rules. You still need that ratio.
"Third, it means having alternate routes, but that's not enough. You need to make sure that everyone has seen these alternate routes, that they are comfortable with them. If it involves subways and buses, you need to make sure that you don't walk around neighborhoods where you will stand out. Four, you're supposed to know where everyone will be at the outing and where everyone not coming is. Saying that it's your job to know where people are doesn't mean that you tell the heads of security how to run their security. It means talk to them, know what measures they have in place, discuss with them any concerns you have and if it's not satisfied to your taste, you talk to me or Prentiss. You do not override their security measures. Six, do not email this information. It's useless to search for five restaurants if you then email where you're going. Seven, all the research you've done for the place where you are going, you will do it again and again for every other restaurant you will not go to. If the military checks, they will have to provide coverage for multiple routes for multiple locations. It becomes less likely that they will attack at that point. Eight, when you have everything straightened out, then you talk to me and Prentiss unless all the people going report only to me or only to her. There will be times when you put all of this work in and you will still be shut down. Welcome to the world of intelligence. Ops get turned down by your bosses no matter how well you prepare them." And sometimes the crappy ones got approved because there was no choice.
"Let me say once again, if it's too complicated or annoying or boring, or hard, then DON'T. No one is telling you to organize a trip out. You want to have fun without the headache, invite people here, to the team lounge. There are couches, TV, get beer. If you go out there, prepare to put a lot of work into it, especially if it's a large group," Sam said. "Now, if it's not a large group, it's much easier, but avoid going to the same places. Go to different restaurants, different pubs, different clubs. You shouldn't have favorite anything. No favorite foods, no favorite routes, no favorite stores. People are creature of habit and that makes you vulnerable. Again, this is nothing that we haven't done the first time we were at the base. I'm not saying anything that you shouldn't know already, except for the new people. Don't make me remind you again, because I won't be this nice the next time."
Sam didn't stop yet. He might as well cover everything and then let them speak. "Next: the mess halls. Now, the Army expects us to use officers one. It's good food; it's convenient. It's also a lot easier to poison your food, so the short of it is: don't. You want to have dinner at the enlisted mess hall, then fine. It's all mass produced in big trays. Same for breakfast and lunch. We also have plenty of restaurants around here. Use them, use different ones. Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, French, Spanish, Mexican, Creole, hell even American, plus the different chains of fast food and that's just in walking distance. You really don't have to cook if you don't want to, just don't eat from the same place. This is it for now. So things I need for you are questions, a resolution for Sundays and anything else you want to bring up while we are in a secure facility."