Editing SHELTER:John Vaught (section)

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Arnold Monk

06.11.07 15:00

Nothing really all that much to say about John, I guess. I mean, he’s a nice guy. Hard worker. I guess John just doesn’t have a particularly noteworthy history. He’s never been directly involved with any high profile cases; never gone through a door guns blazing, and certainly never done any operations off the books. He’s told me so himself, and frankly I believe him. He’s just not the type.

I mean sure, he’s known some of those types of folks. Even had a hand in hiring one or two, from time to time. Occasionally he gets to have lunch with the directors up here, or share war stories with the field agents, but that’s really a factor of the fact that John’s a likeable guy. Purely personal; it has nothing to do with business.

Look, John’s the ambitious type. Ever since the towers, he’s had some kind of thing going… I think maybe he got a little rattled by it all, or something. Maybe he felt responsible or something – you know, our team was working some kind of financial angle on the whole deal. Maybe he thought we should have pushed harder, could have stopped things. But you know, we had to keep our cover. Wasn’t worth the sacrifice to push things.

Guess he wasn’t happy with that. That’s why you guys got him. Some inter-agency swap through DHS, right? It’s funny, I’m probably the only guy at the agency who’s got a bad word to say about John, after he burned me out of my spot. But I guess that’s why you’re talking to me, right? Johns a nice guy and all, and he did good work on the EEA task force. But he won’t let go of it. I followed protocols and I did my job, and when he couldn’t get an appeal through the FBI, he sabotaged me, got me blacklisted and shut out. I was a “risk to the program.” You want to know what a real risk to the program is? Someone who can’t follow the rules, that’s what. When John thinks he’s right about something, he’s willing to step on anyone and sacrifice anything to make the “right thing” happen.

You think about that before you give him whatever this super-secret new job is supposed to be.

Thanks. I guess that's it.


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