TADJ21

==Chapter 21 - The Adjudicator==
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Former Word of Blake Prison Camp
Kittery Star System
Late 3159
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[Kittery Crime Scene...Day 6]
The media were outside the fence-line.  Forensic students from the nearby trade schools were learning to process evidence with real-life. Hands-on experience finding identifying features. Matching identity documents that hadn't decayed in the pits, sorting the belongings of the victims as they were recovered from the pits.
"Evidence of a crime, victims of a crime, no suspect." Clarissa said, "or maybe better to say, too many suspects."
"You can't be serious! This is clearly the Republic's work!"
"I didn't say it wasn't but, the Republic is over a trillion people." She said, "When i say 'no suspects', they took pains to hide this from all those people too."
The Maskirovka officer stopped and looked out at the fences.  
"It's still a crime scene." Clarissa said, "Maybe you should let the ones with camera-drones take pics. They might spot something we missed...and the people. Which is including those people you hate? Deserve to know what was done in their name. maybe it'll shake out some suspects, or witnesses might come forward."
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"Witnesses?" asked the officer.
"Takes a lot of men to run an op like this. You can't count on one hundred percent of them being complete psychopaths." she said, "Someone who was involved with this is still alive, or was still alive, and is or was wracked by guilt, is ready to talk or will be or was."
"Three can keep secrets-if two are dead." he acknowledged.
"Exactly. Let the media have a look, show 'em what we found. Let the word spread. Somebody knows something."
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