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24 update: The CIP device, which can bring the United States to its knees in short order if it falls into the wrong hands, has fallen into the wrong hands, those of Colonel Dubaku, cohort of General Juma, the butcher of Sangala. Unless the CIP device is recovered and Juma overthrown, hundreds of thousands of innocent Americans and Africans will die. FBI agent Renee Walker is on the case, but too squeamish about constitutional protocols to be effective. Jack Bauer explains by example that when it’s necessary to elicit critical information by the next commercial break sometimes an interrogator must do what needs to be done. Renee takes the lesson to heart. But in short order, with Renee herself now a captive of a murderous Dubaku operative and those hundreds of thousands of innocent lives in greater peril than ever, a man from the Attorney General’s Office disrupts FBI headquarters to conduct a witch hunt, “If Agent Walker broke federal guidelines and used illegal tactics to get information,” he says, “then yes, she will be prosecuted.” You want to snap this fool’s neck.
