"I have been looking in to the official computer systems at the access levels above mine. So far, to borrow one of your Ami expressions, there seems to be no there there. Which does not mean I will stop my quiet inquiries. I was taken advantage of by someone using the 'big lie' once. I do not wish for that to ever happen again."
Selene nodded. "A bit of institutional inertia on the part of my predecessor. I knew what was responsible as soon as he gave me the case report to look over. But he was caught up in his little power games and wanted to pursue his agenda with me at the expense of good police work. That offends me personally as well as professionally. Things might have gone rather badly for him had he not been one of the vanished. It would not have been my first exposure to ugly political infighting. And your profile was spot on, lacking only a few saliant points. Something you did because of the politics I mentioned?