Phil Mahoney didn’t like the feel of this. He had been a big time newspaper columnist, and he knew when someone was trying to set him up. The old guy sitting across the table was up to something.
“What’s going on here, Reuben?” he asked.
“This hearing of the Senate Committee on Hearings to Get to the Bottom of Things, will now begin. I’m Senator Jeffrey Boone. To my left is the committee’s co-chair, Senator Richard Doggle. Our first witness is Mr. Herbert B. Evasive. Mr. Evasive is the chief executive officer of URConnected. Mr. Evasive, before we get to questions from committee members, do you have an opening statement?”
Herb B. Evasive: “So…first, I want to thank Senators Boone and Doggle for inviting, summoning, and subpoenaing, me and my executive team to appear before the comimittee. We know privacy is of the utmost importance to the American people, and we are honored to have been forced, and shamed into appearing.”