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themselves. The issue, Jared reiterated, was not what the Silk Road was, but what it could be. The
site was clearly run by some sort of genius who seemed to understand technology and politics as
much as he understood his audience. And whoever that prodigy was, he or she had to be stopped
before this site became a movement and ultimately unstoppable.
As Jared spoke, the totality of what he was saying hit the attorney with utmost fear. Jared was
there warning that, in the same way the hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center did so
using American-owned jets, the people behind the Silk Road could destroy the very fabric of the
United States using tools built by America. The implications were terrifying.
The attorney interrupted Jared midsentence. “Yes,” he said as he looked at the envelopes on his
table and then up at Jared. “Yes, we’ll assign someone to your case.”