Jubal waved it aside. "I said it wasn't a policy.  We've always had political assassination - from prominent ones like Huey Long to men beaten to death on their own front steps with hardly a page eight story in passing.  But it's never been a policy here and the reason you are sitting in the sunshine right now is that it is not Joe Douglas' policy.  Consider.  They snatched you clean, no fuss, no inquiries.  They squeezed you dry - then they had no more use for you... and they could have disposed of you as quietly as flushing a dead mouse down a toilet.  But they didn't.  Why not?  Because they knew their boss didn't really like for them to play that rough and if he became convinced that they had (whether in court or out), it would cost their jobs if not their necks."