Another man, pale with a redhead’s stubble, took notes, and finally there was a woman who seemed to be in charge. They were from a national task group, she told me, and they were not for the moment concerned with threats made against Annie or even against me. They were aware of those and others in their office were looking into the more serious ones. It was their task, she warned me with great solemnity, to investigate the possibility that I had myself broken the law.