In the evening, the nephew of the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation contacted Lin Qi.
He arranged to meet Lin Qi. Before long, the two met at the agreed location, a small but expensive restaurant.
He sat at one table, while Lin Qi sat at another, with a soundproof partition between them.
Lin Qi casually ordered a few things. They ate separately, and when they were nearly finished, the Director's nephew spoke in a voice only the two of them could hear--
"Someone is restarting the investigation into you."
"They took quite a few files from our side. You need to be careful."
Lin Qi elegantly set down his knife and fork, picked up a napkin, and dabbed the grease from his lips. "Do you know who?"
"The Department of Defense..."
Not long afterward, Lin Qi got up and left. The Department of Defense's involvement was within his expectations.
The Department of Defense also had several investigative agencies. Both the Army Intelligence Agency and the Homeland Security Bureau were subordinate agencies of the Department of Defense.
Still, this did not exceed his expectations. He had even broadened the scope to include the National Security Committee.
The Federal Security Committee was a very special security agency. When it was first established, Congress had taken the initiative to create it.
Some congressmen served as committee members and chairmen, generally directing the National Security Committee's course.
But the masters could not possibly handle the actual work themselves, so they drew highly trained personnel from the police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the military to fill out the National Security Committee.
After its later reforms, the National Security Committee separated from Congress and became an independent federal government agency, reporting directly to the president.
Although it had become an independent agency,