They talked some more, but the sentry never said a word about a pirate broadcast exposing the Confed connection or implicating Trahn in anything. Clearly Markowitz hadn’t come through. Andy’s plan had been flawed, but it had seemed to have a chance. But that thought recalled Andy’s other earlier suggestion, one that Tom had put down as foolish. He’d said they ought to take their story to the President—and now here was Tom, less than a hundred meters from the President.