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From: sblack03@cdc.gov (Stephen Black, National Center for Infectious Diseases)

To: rmathis@dhs.gov (Robert Mathis, Federal Computer Incident Response Center)

Subject: Ball is in your court

Date: Tues, 18 Sep 01:04:54 -0400

Mr. Mathis,
I do not appreciate the manner in which you have handled the incident. Frankly, I don’t care if the outbreak falls under the jurisdiction of the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee, as long as it lands somewhere firmly enough for the investigation to be completed and the issue resolved. Heck, give it to the CIA. But I think you will find from the attached case studies that the outbreak now lies in the hands of the Dept. of Homeland Security, more specifically, FedCIRC.

Obviously, there is still much left uncovered concerning the events of the past eight months, but two cases proved to be invaluable in shedding light on the mess. Two men, Philip B. Burnsted, a computer engineer from Syndico Systems in Austin, and Russell T. Iverson, a defense attorney of Cincinnati, were interviewed at length concerning their involvement. I’ve attached select transcripts from these interviews.
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I realize my use of "incident" is obnoxiously vague. I plan to replace that as soon as I come up with a descriptive name for the incident (such as September 11th, Bay of Pigs, Day of Infamy, etc.)

The email goes on for another half page, then I plan on each chapter of the book being a first person account of events, each chapter alternating POV between these two interviewees. Probably conclude the book with another brief email.

EDIT: would it be a problem that those two email addresses are very likely real addresses of an s. black and an r. mathis?

I wouldn't use the e-mails. Perhaps putting just their names and titles in the header would be better. Alternatively you could go to the CDC and find the format they use for e-mails and deliberately use an alternate format (i.e. instead of first initial and last name it becomes initials followed by a number)

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Alternatively you could go to the CDC and find the format they use for e-mails and deliberately use an alternate format (i.e. instead of first initial and last name it becomes initials followed by a number)

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