Van knew that this sermon of Jeb’s meant big trouble. Jeb was positioning the CCIAB to become a kamikaze high-tech outfit that played fast and loose with the old rules. Van was okay with that risk. Realistically, there wasn’t any other choice. If he, Derek R. Vandeveer, was ever going to become an effective federal security official, then Washington was going to have to ditch old rules by the bucketful.