Chapter 1048: Seize the Commanding Height of News
As soon as Speaker Long finished speaking, Gu Nianzhi and Special a.s.sistant Zhuang asked in unison, “Where did the Americans obtain this intelligence from?!”
How could they know the names of their nation’s 27 soldiers?!
Speaker Long’s expression was glum as he balled his hands into fists. “That was also the same question we asked.” As he spoke, he placed the list of the 27 soldiers before Gu Nianzhi. “Take a look. Do we need to fight this lawsuit?”
As soon as Gu Nianzhi read the list, she instantly understood these were precisely the 27 Special Operations Forces personnel in the central control room that day!
She knew all of them, since these were her brothers and uncles who had watched her grow up.
Seeing these familiar names being named defendants in the American courts, Gu Nianzhi felt an unrealistic sense of absurdity.
She composed herself before taking the indictment from the US Department of Justice and reading it over.
The indictment was very thick, so Gu Nianzhi only read the summary on the first page.
The US Department of Justice’s indictment indicated that they were charging the 27 soldiers with 31 counts, including using phis.h.i.+ng software to obtain pa.s.swords, hacking into US Secret Laboreaotory’s computer systems to plant viruses, stealing advanced technical data, using virus commands to damage computer software and hardware, and violating personal privacy, theft of business and trade secrets and more. They demanded astronomical compensation.
The indictment was from the Federal District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The 27 Chinese soldiers were also wanted immediately.
The indictment was accompanied by an arrest warrant issued by the FBI and included clear photos of the 27 military officers.
Gu Nianzhi read the summary and smiled bitterly. “The United States has employed a politically correct person as the Attorney General, so his professionalism can only be relegated as secondary in importance. How could they have written such a ridiculous indictment otherwise? The US Department of Justice has probably played deaf and mute for too long. This is truly too embarra.s.sing.”
“You mean that they shouldn’t be suing us?”
“Of course they shouldn’t be. First, according to the procedural justice of US law, the means of obtaining evidence must be legal and made public in order to be legal. Look at these soldiers’ information. This is all cla.s.sified top secret in our own nation. How did the Americans get their hands on it? Do they dare to reveal their methods and modes of obtaining this information?”
Gu Nianzhi knocked on the thick indictment. “They certainly wouldn’t dare to tell us. Anyone with eyes could tell that they must have obtained this information illegally. They either had a spy obtain it, or just as they have accused us of cyber warfare, they also used hackers to steal from our system.”
“You mean that the case is simply untenable since their evidence was obtained illegally.” Speaker Long also came from a legal background, so he had a very deep understanding of the courts.
“Right, the American courts shouldn’t have filed this case in the first place. But as we can all see, the American courts actually did so.” Gu Nianzhi shook her head with a smile. “We must forgive their ignorance and arrogance. You have to understand that under the guise of political correctness, the United States has already gone too far. For the sake of political correctness, they can sacrifice fairness, efficiency, quality, and conscience. The last US government failed, since it was full of intelligent people who only relied on political correctness to get into office.”
As for the current US government, the Twitter-addicted President hadn’t yet finished replacing all the government officials. Many of the senior government positions were still held by the same officials from the previous term.
The Attorney General suing the Huaxia soldiers had been appointed by the previous president.
Speaker Long nodded. “Nianzhi said it well. Draft a refusal email and send it to me. I’ll forward it to the interim cabinet as well as the Ministry of Foreign affairs, plus General Ji.”
Gu Nianzhi nodded in agreement before returning to her office to draft the refusal email.
She was very familiar with writing such emails, so she was able to quickly criticize the other party’s indictment in a reasonable and well-grounded manner. From jurisprudence to legal articles, and logic to common sense, everything was completely rebuked by her.
The email was less than 300 words in length in English but was already a wonderful court defense paper.
Speaker Long read the email and clapped his hands in delight. He immediately forwarded the email to General Ji, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for their reference.
General Ji and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarded this like it was a treasure. Using Gu Nianzhi’s refusal email written by a legal professional as basis, they replied to the unreasonable request made by the United States.
The Huaxia Imperial Ministry of Justice was the only one that didn’t pay much attention to the email forwarded by Speaker Long.
Since the Minister of Justice was single-handedly brought into power by Prime Minister Tan Dongbang, he had always regarded Tan Dongbang as his leader.
Even though Tan Dongbang’s status as Prime Minister was at stake, this Minister of Justice still refused to give up on him. He still maintained his position as the Prime Minister’s dog.
He was shocked as soon as he received the indictment from the US Department of Justice and immediately went to Tan Dongbang for advice.
Tan Dongbang called Cai Songyin over, and together, they sat in the Office of the Prime Minister to listen to the report by the Minister of Justice. They then read the summary of the indictment with excitement rising in their hearts.
Wasn’t this incident extremely promising?!
Tan Dongbang looked eagerly at Cai Songyin. “Songyin, what do you think we should do about this?”
As soon as Tan Dongbang spoke, Cai Songyin already understood his intentions.
She flipped through the indictment and mused silently—could there be a glimmer of hope for Tan Dongbang’s fate as Prime Minister?!
If they publicized this incident, perhaps they could still manage to reap some benefits during the interim general elections…
Cai Songyin held the thick stack of indictment papers and replied, “I need to go back and carefully consider what to do.”
“Fine, fine, fine, hurry up and go think about it!” Tan Dongbang actually had his own ideas that he was eager to try out, but Cai Songyin had been prestigious for so long. Tan Dongbang always instinctively sought her opinion first, especially when it came to major matters.
Cai Songyin left Tan Dongbang’s Office of the Prime Minister with the indictment and returned to her own building.
After Tan Guiren returned from the senate building that afternoon, she discovered her father, Tan Dongbang, was in a meeting. Her mother was also attending the conference, so she didn’t see anyone at all and took a nap immediately after returning. When she woke up, the servants told her that Cai Songyin had already returned home.
She hurriedly changed and went to the door to stop her.
Upon seeing Cai Songyin, Tan Guiren fluttered over like a b.u.t.terfly. “Mommy.”
Cai Songyin stopped in her tracks and smiled as she watched Tan Guiren fall in her embrace.
Hugging Tan Guiren, Cai Songyin replied kindly, “Little darling, why don’t you sleep some more?”
“Mommy, I already slept a lot.” Tan Guiren hugged Cai Songiyn’s arm. “Mommy, I need to tell you something. Director Hong is a completely horrible person.”
Cai Songyin wasn’t sure what to respond to this.
“Little darling, you don’t need to pay attention to outside things. You only need to practice your violin.” Cai Songyin brushed away a strand of Tan Guiren’s long, black hair. “How are you doing in the Army Cultural Regiment?”
“Pretty good.” Tan Guiren felt very relieved after delivering her message. “Mommy, I’ll be going to the regiment to practice violin this afternoon and won’t be back until nighttime.”
“Go on then, I’ll have Old Chang drive you.”
Old Chang was Cai Songyin’s family driver.
Tan Guiren happily left in the car, and Cai Songyin finally had a chance to take a closer look at the US Department of Justice’s indictment.
She viewed the indictment from a different angle from Gu Nianzhi. Cai Songyin looked at the indictment from the perspective that attempted to create major headlines and entertainment.
As expected, there were almost too many things in the indictment for her to use to create drama.
There were only four days until Tan Dongbang ran in another election.
They had to seize command of the news!