Angela Bassett (as President)
Appearances
Fresh Air
Andrew Scott Doesn't See Ripley As A Monster
Usually a zero-day vulnerability task. exist on a single operating system, your iPhones say. But this thing exploited unknown vulnerabilities across dozens of systems. It shut those systems off for exactly one minute and then turned everything back on again.
Fresh Air
Andrew Scott Doesn't See Ripley As A Monster
We had barely gotten our people into it when everything came back online.
Fresh Air
Andrew Scott Doesn't See Ripley As A Monster
Just that insidious threat. We're running shifts at me trying to sort through a digital trail that is basically the Gordian Knot.
Fresh Air
Andrew Scott Doesn't See Ripley As A Monster
Congress is authorizing a special investigatory commission and endowing it with extraordinary powers commensurate with the scale of this emergency. They will be granting this commission powers of surveillance, powers of search and seizure, if necessary, even the suspension of habeas corpus. Jesus, Evelyn, we didn't even do that after 9-11. This is different. We knew who did it then.
Fresh Air
Andrew Scott Doesn't See Ripley As A Monster
We have no clue here and no time to spare. We need an entity with all the powers of every law enforcement and intelligence agency put together operating on American soil.