American Tax Officer

Chapter 803: Chapter 402: Resignation_2
 

Thoughts flashed through his mind, and he looked at David with a grim gaze, saying, “You think you can bring me down just with what you’ve exposed?”

David didn’t respond immediately, instead, he opened a drawer, took out a document, threw it in front of him, and said, “What about this then?”

He knew that the other might be provoking him, trying to elicit what other trump cards he had, but he didn’t care.

Throwing out the document was a direct way of telling the other party, “I’ve got you figured out, what can you do about it!”

Director Edgar immediately began to read the document and, as its contents gradually came to light, sweat incessantly seeped from his forehead.

He knew that since David was already moving against him, there must be more than just the few materials leaked by the media in recent days, surely there were other ‘trump cards’, and now it seemed there indeed were!

It could be said that if the media were to expose the document in his hands, then resigning wouldn’t be the end of it, he might well face complete ruin and imprisonment!

Because in this document, there was too much evidence of him abusing power and accepting bribes!

“How did you get hold of these?”

“Do I need to explain it to you?”

“You… alright, what do you want!”

Knowing that his fate now hung by a thread, Director Edgar’s tone wasn’t as firm as before.

“Director Edgar, do you know why I didn’t just leak this document straightaway?”

“You were waiting for me to come to you, right?”

Director Edgar wasn’t foolish and immediately grasped the key point.

David smiled. Yes, he hadn’t destroyed Director Edgar immediately mainly because he wanted the other party to come to him.

If the latter cooperated and did some tasks for him, David wasn’t against giving him a way out!

“Firstly, you have to resign along with your cohorts, and I need to know what The Big Three Groups instructed your MAS to do.”

“Is that all it takes for you to let me go?”

Now that he was utterly powerless, Director Edgar had little choice but to comply.

If he could get out of this whole, it would perhaps be the best outcome for him.

“Oh right, one more thing about your successor, we plan to recommend Hena Quintan, I need you to help him establish prestige internally, and personally recommend him to the President!”

Although the Internal Revenue Service planned to parachute Hena in, it wouldn’t be appropriate to speak directly to the President, so it was best for Director Edgar, who was about to resign, to make the recommendation.

“Hena Quintan…”

Director Edgar repeated the name, but quickly seemed to think of something, he looked angrily at David and said, “He’s one of your IRS top-level officials, are you kidding me internationally?”

Director Edgar had been deeply entrenched in the NSA for so many years and he believed that even if he resigned, he could still wield considerable influence.

But David planned to directly drop his own high-level official into the position, wasn’t that essentially turning the NSA into a vassal to the IRS?

He wouldn’t even be able to set foot in the department again, let alone wield any influence!

“I’m not joking, Director Edgar, we’ve made our decision, either comply, or… heh!”

David didn’t continue, but the implied threat in his words was nearly overflowing.

“David, do you realize that by doing this, you’ll unsettle DHS, CBP… and a host of other law enforcement agencies, afraid of being swallowed up by your IRS, can you handle the consequences?”

Director Edgar brought up the major law enforcement agencies in trying to make David back down.

But David wasn’t the slightest bit deterred, replying, “There’s no need to bring these agencies up as a threat to us. I have only one thing to say, anyone who dares oppose us, we’ll deal with them. As for these agencies, as long as they don’t step in to interfere with our duties, we won’t bother stirring them up!”

It had to be said, David was quite astute with his words.

In the future, as long as the word was passed through the channels to various law enforcement agencies, they would understand that NSA had met such a fate due to its own fault.

Edgar clenched his teeth, his face changing from green to purple,

“Director Edgar, you are sixty-three this year, at this age, you should be going back to enjoy your grandchildren and family happiness. There’s no need for you to continue wallowing in these muddy waters, this will be our affair and those who are ignorant of their doom!”

After about three minutes of silence, Edgar finally gave in. He clenched his teeth and said, “All right, I will do as you say, hoping that you will keep your promise!”

He ultimately made the wise decision.

Now the dispute between the Internal Revenue Service and The Big Three Groups was getting more intense. Although he was a member of the Illuminati, he actually felt a bit like he was being used as a tool.

Otherwise, would he now be targeted for reformation by this David?

And now that his weak spot had fallen into the hands of others, the Illuminati couldn’t force him to go on a suicide mission, could they?

It was better to withdraw and enjoy some peaceful days, leaving the mess for them to handle!

Seeing that Edgar had chosen to compromise, David finally showed a hint of a smile and said, “Edgar, you’ve made a smart choice, rest assured, as long as you do as I say, I won’t go back on my word.”

“…”

The next morning.

At the entrance of the White House, a group of five people walked in.

These were none other than NSA Director Edgar, Deputy Director Gransham, Chief of Intelligence Webber, and other senior officials.

Led by the staff, they walked through the corridor to the President’s office.

At that moment, Payden was discussing something with Wylder. Seeing the arrival of the NSA and the others, he immediately stopped his work and asked, puzzled, “What’s the matter, Edgar?”

“Mr. President, due to my health, I am unable to continue as the NSA Deputy Director. I’ve come to tender my resignation!”

Before Edgar could reply, Deputy Director Gransham interjected.

Upon hearing this, both Payden and Wylder were stunned.

After a while, still oblivious to the real reason, Payden asked with concern, “What’s wrong, Gransham? Did something happen to your health? Do you need my medical team to check on you?”

Although NSA wasn’t as globally renowned as the FBI, CIA, or IRS, it was still an extremely important institution.

In some respects, NSA had even more capabilities in intelligence than the CIA.

After all, it should be noted that NSA’s headquarters covered an area of 15 hectares, located to the north of Washington in Mid Fort, Maryland, in a forest hundreds of meters away from Washington Park near Baltimore City, and its scale was even bigger than CIA headquarters.

Moreover, NSA was the agency in the world that independently employed the most mathematicians, computer scientists, and linguists.

Therefore, Payden didn’t want to see anything go wrong with the senior leadership of this institution.

“No need, Mr. President. I truly am unable to continue in this position due to my health. I am very sorry, please understand!”

Hearing Gransham’s firm tone, Payden frowned.

But before he could ponder further, Chief of Intelligence Webber also spoke up, “Mr. President, due to personal family reasons, I have also come to resign today.”

“What!”

Payden shot up from his chair.

It was one thing for Gransham to resign due to health issues.

Now with Webber resigning due to family reasons, even without being the sharpest, he knew these ‘health and family reasons’ were just excuses!

Something must have happened within the NSA!