It's very common for small people to leak big secrets.
Because if you want to get something done, you always need small people, and they can never enjoy the high-level protection of the big people.
If a key small-time person had been less vigilant and neglected the safety rules, it would have been possible for him to directly send top-secret documents in the mobile phone group chat and conduct private chats with the action group.
Don't think this is bragging. NYPD officers have done this before during the bombing some time ago, including Luke and his gang.
Even the FBI discovered during an internal investigation that many of its employees had lost hundreds of guns and dozens of laptops containing top-secret information.
According to regulations, these notebooks were not allowed to be taken out of the FBI office, but they were taken home by the agents just to make it convenient for them to go home and work overtime, and then... they were stolen by thieves.
If it weren’t for this major investigation, the FBI executives themselves wouldn’t have known that so many things were lost.
The titanium mobile phone, F2F, Feixun, and the little green man mobile phone operating system that Luke has been working on are all following this path.
Collect clues and intelligence from the bottom up and occupy the most basic level of any matter - people.
This was the inspiration he got from the great man's strategy of "surrounding the cities from the countryside."
As long as the channels for obtaining intelligence are sufficient to cover 90% of the people in this society, can the remaining 10% really break away from the 90% group and exist independently
As Ah Fu screened the contents of the mobile phones and social media accounts of these cleanup personnel who had appeared, a smile appeared on Luke's face.
Sure enough, some of these people have problems.
Not to mention anything else, more than a dozen of them were from a private insurance company, and an analysis of their job positions, years of experience, and salaries combined was clearly abnormal.
They can't lie about their salary, of course, because they have to file taxes.
You can't say that you don't have to file taxes with the IRS just because you are an outsider of the FBI or CIA.
The people from this insurance company are definitely not core members. They should be handymen responsible for daily field work.
With the title of insurance company, they can legitimately go to various accident sites, pretending to be on-site inspectors and loss assessors, and handle the scene.
Unfortunately, the people in this company have obviously worked in China for a few years and their vigilance has been much lower. The photos of the company's Christmas party that they posted online using their mobile phones were exactly the same.
But in the background, we can see that the time these people posted the photos is the same, just about a few seconds.
There are many similar situations, and they happen to many people.
Even if a normal person wants to be lazy, he should just forward the photos. Anyway, it’s not a big deal to admit that you are too lazy to take photos.
The technicians who handle logistics for this group of odd jobs are probably used to doing things by the book, so they directly carry out batch operations and help colleagues who are working overtime to send photos to fool their friends.
That's the power of habit.
The FBI has full law enforcement powers in the country and does not need to set up such long-term shell companies.
The CIA has no domestic law enforcement powers, so it is possible that it could use such companies to circumvent legal restrictions.
But the appearance of Bald Sitwell shows that SHIELD is still the biggest suspect.
It has the power to enforce the law throughout the world, but is feared by local forces around the world. The principle behind this is similar to that of the UN peacekeeping force.
People need a special institution to legitimately interfere in "international affairs", but they also don't like other countries to use this institution to enter their country.
But in exchange for interests, not joining SHIELD is equivalent to being squeezed out, and the loss of interests is greater.
Therefore, how to gain more power in SHIELD and reduce its interference in the country is a long-term task.
These are all obvious things. Just look at the five directors of the World Security Council, which is S.H.I.E.L.D.'s direct superior department, and they happen to belong to the five major powers.
For this reason, SHIELD has considerable authority in the United States, but it is not unimpeded.
The U.S. government will try its best to give domestic operational authority to the part of SHIELD that it controls, but core secrets cannot be handed over to this group of Americans who are "contributing to the world."
This is the same as the top management structure of the NYPD.
The nominal leaders of the NYPD are the commissioner, the first deputy commissioner, and three deputy commissioners, who control the selection of police chiefs, funding, and promotions at key levels.
In fact, it is Chief Sheriff Nelson who controls the daily operations and force of the NYPD.
The five commissioners serve the same function as the five trustees, with Sheriff Nelson and Nick Fury having similar scopes of work.
The special departments and branches of the two are the same, with one in New York and the other in the world.
There is the disobedient 15th Precinct in the NYPD, and there are also members and branches in SHIELD who pretend to obey but actually go against their will and develop their own power.
The two check and balance each other and compromise with each other.
This is also the reason why Luke initially thought about asking Phil but later gave up.
Sitwell is definitely not in Phil's group, so what if he finds out
Nick Fury is self-aware. He is the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., but S.H.I.E.L.D. is not his, just like the NYPD is not Chief Inspector Nelson.
The World Security Council will not allow SHIELD to become Nick Fury's private property. He is just a "professional manager".
Luke followed the line of investigation along the insurance company line, and then more information gradually surfaced.
The intelligence is there, but most of the time the challenge is finding the right target.
It is difficult to track down an experienced and vigilant old agent like Phil, but it is easy to track down a group of low-level workers who just get by in an insurance company.
But no matter whether Phil or Bald Sitwell finishes their work, they will inevitably have to find these kinds of odd jobs to ask them to complete the handover documents, issue gag orders, transfer evidence and testimony, etc.
If Phil and his direct reports were left to handle these matters, handling a case could be delayed for days or even weeks.
SHIELD is efficient, but it cannot make the police or other departments on the other side of the handover efficient as well. It can only leave these tasks to the handymen to complete slowly.
The things these handymen handle may not necessarily be important, but there are always important things.
Like the blood that Wade left at the scene this time, including the bullets that were shot into his body and then dug out and thrown away, all must be thrown away.
This kind of thing was definitely not suitable to be left in the hands of the handymen, so the next day it was put together, packed and sent to the helicopter.
The helicopter is the insurance company's daily means of transportation and has not been specially modified.
This type of backup helicopter, which is used for cargo + passenger + temporary support, is not very confidential. The positioning system was left on, allowing Luke to easily find its landing location - a small private airport on the outskirts of Los Angeles.
The evidence was then transferred to another cargo plane and flown directly to its destination.
The cargo plane was owned by another cargo company, but no trace of it was found at the reported target airport.
Luke looked up the freight company's attendance sheet and determined the flight record of the plane. He found the plane's refueling record, took an average of the multiple fuel consumptions, and came up with a figure of just over 500 kilometers.
He asked Ah Fu to search according to this distance, mainly in the northeast direction where the plane took off.
Ah Fu searched the satellite photos in the database at a location of more than 500 kilometers, and finally found an airport in the desert area of Nevada, and discovered that the cargo plane had landed there.
There is an airport in the wilderness with no obvious buildings around. There must be a base either underground or in a cave, which is a perfect choice for S.H.I.E.L.D.'s storage point.