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I Am Already Dead

A science fiction writer learned what any thoughtful person has known for years: We are all as good as dead. If you wanted to kill me, I'm dead. If I wanted to kill you, you're dead. The logistics of mass murder and destruction are uncomplicated. Wait for me outside of my apartment. Walk by and pull the trigger. The end: I was a real-life secret agent. I didn't have the hand-grenade cuff links or the poison-dart pen, but in 2004 I was recruited by the Department of Homeland Security for its Red Cell program. As they described it - and as The Washington Post later reported - Red Cell was the government's way of trying to anticipate how terrorists would next attack the United States. I'm not allowed to tell you what the targets were. Or where they were...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 11, 2011 (boomark / email).