Zhang Wei went over his checklist again, but it was a pure formality. There was already chaos in America. In all, over the course of the last twenty four hours, there had been fifty-seven perfectly plausible yet fake attacks that had flooded the airwaves and three real attacks, which Springer’s men had taken care of. The news organizations had still not separated the fake from the real. Springer had sent in encrypted data on the state of play of the US Government. The entire security apparatus of the United States was in full blown panic. All leave had been cancelled for all law enforcement agencies and every single police officer in the country was clocking in overtime. No excuses. The only police officers not on duty were in the hospital. The National Guard had been called out, quite uselessly, in all fifty states. Every resource FEMA had was in the field. Homeland Security was in a state of high alert. Every single news channel was in disarray.
