It was one thing to send your goons. It was quite another to be there yourself.
Now the door was wide open. They had caught him red-handed and could question him about anything they wanted, for as long as they wanted, and they wouldn’t have to worry about lawyers breathing down their necks. And if Payne guessed right, the process would go on indefinitely.
In the vernacular of the U.S. military, it was called a ghost detainee.
Abdul-Khaliq would enter their system and simply disappear.