“It was a hack.”
Clarissa almost wept with relief as the pressure inside her chest let go all at once. For the half hour since she called the Cyber Twins, she hadn’t dared to breathe.
She set her phone to speaker. Miranda’s team had rejoined the table, so everyone would hear her vindication at the same time.
“You’re on speaker. Please repeat that.”
“It was a hack, not an inside job.” Only then did Clarissa pay attention to the voice.
“Do we have a point of origin yet, Mr. President?” Clarissa prayed that it wasn’t inside her own organization.
“Jeremy is working on that with your people. He says—”
“We have some good leads,” Jeremy interrupted the President in his excitement. “Homeland Security brought on the NSA to trace Captain O’Dowd’s background and contacts, too. Harry and Heidi
