[Travis McGee]

Good critique, a few points about them. First, the public can’t learn anything during that first week of a major ME war, with cyber blowback in the USA. What little news is being reported will be about the war, not some rumors about wrongful arrests. That is why they waited for the smoke and noise of the war to blend the 2,000 purge arrests into a roundup of suspected Iranian terror cells etc.

And keep in mind that this is from the POV of Jacinda Hamden, presidential advisor; it’s not a law enforcement AAR.

[Durus]

Sorry I didn't mean it to be a story critique and understandably Valerie Jacinda wouldn't be privy to every problem with the round up, I'm just stating that there would be problems regardless of a war starting and a complete news blackout. Problems that "the public" ie:neighbors, local press, local family, local law enforcement, couldn't help but notice but might not come to Jacinda's attention.