Deception Point 10

The Delta Force attack helicopter swoops down on the Goya and sprays it with bullets. A missile destroys the coast gaurd helicopter, Michael and Rachel are stuck on the ship facing armed attackers. Gabrielle figures out the password to Senator Sextons computer but is unable to find evidence before he comes and she has to sneak out. The helicopter comes down on them but Corky hops in the motor boat in a last ditch effort to make the helicoptor choose who it deals with. The helicopter lands on the boat and drops two delta force operatives weilding machine guns onto the deck. The helicoptor chases after corky. The first operative gets his foot blown off by michael weilding a shark shotgun. Corky pees on his leg in order to cover up the smell of blood and jumps into the water before the ship is blown to bits with a hellfire missile. Delta two gets his leg crushed by the arm of Michaels submarine. Rachel sends the evidence as a fax to her father so that the information is not confined to themselves. The controller lands down from the helicopter and is shown to be William Pickering. Senator Sexton prepares to share the information with the press. The last delta operative dies trying to take off from the ship and he is unable to escape and falls into the water to his death. Rachel gets stuck in the submarine but by using pressure Michael saves her. In the end Senator Sexton accidentaly reveals his affair with Gabrielle to the press and Rachel and Michael fall in love.

Deception Point 9

Marjorie Tench sets up a meeting with William Pickering. The gang realizes that a creatur the size of the fossils could have lived underwater. Gabrielle Ashe finds where Chris Harper is and prepares to interrogate him. She stealthily sneaks up to his office and corners him. The group figures out that the "meteorite" could have recieved its fusion crust from a newly developed rocket engine. Gabrielle makes false accusations at Chris Harper in order to get him to admit that he lied about PODS. He falls for it and tells her everything. The Delta team gets a new mission and it is: to kill William Pickering at the rendevouz spot (obviously Marjorie Tench and Ekstrom want him dead). The only issue left to resolve to prove the meteor is a fake is the chondrules, and Michael gets a call from one of his fellow scientists saying that there was an error in his documentary. They decide to go straight to his ship (the goya)to find out if it has anything to do with chondrules. The delta force team kills William Pickering by shooting missiles used by terrorists at his car. They make it to the Goya nad find out that chondrules can be replicated underwater. They now have all the evidence needed to disprove the meteorite. Gabrielle Ashe breaks into senator Sexton's office looking for information. Rachel tries to call Pickering but delta force tracks her and heads for her coordinates.

Deception Point 8

Marjorie Tench decides to call the NRO director William Pickering in order to leave Rachel with no allies in the "war with the president" that Tench believes is now occuring. Pickering does not believe Tench and has confidence in Rachel. Immediately after Tench's call, Pickering gets another call from Rachel. Rachel explains all the evidence she has found to prove that the meteorite is fake. William Pickering believes her and decides that they should get off the submarine and into his office because whoever wants to kill them is coming for them! Senator Sexton realizes that he was tricked. Rachel and the others are finally taken from the submarine onto a helicoptor to safety. Ekstrom finds out that there was a submarine close to his NASA base and becomes outraged then he gets a call from Marjorie Tench infroming him of Rachels "intentions". Just as Senator Sexton had lost all hope the leader of the space frontier foundation arrived at his house and was strangely optimistic. He said that he was not sure that the PODS repairs were actually made. If that were true that took away all the credibility of the extra terrestrial life, and Senator Sexton's campaign would be rejuvinated. Delta One is informed that their mission has failed and are ordered to finish the job. Senator Sexton convinces Gabrielle to climb back on ship with him after he tells her his plans for a comeback and a crippling blow to the Herney administration.

Deception Point #7

The Delta team assumes that they have elimated Corky, Michael, Rachel, and Dr. Mangor when only the later is true. They decide to dump Dr. Mangor in the ocean. Luckily for our remaining survivors Rachel's tapping is heard by the crewmen of the U.S.S Charlotte on sonar and they rescue them. Gabrielle, stunned at what her candidate has been doing quickly goes to ABC news to spill her secrets. When Gabrielle gets to ABC news she decides to talk to her friend Yolanda. Yolanda urges Gabrielle to keep her secrets secret and that Marjorie Tench was bluffing. Gabrielle reluctantly believes her and decides not to tell. On the U.S.S Charlotte our group is sprayed with warm water and given shots of adrenaline to restore them to normal condition. The press conference starts in 9 minutes and Rachel having no other choice urgently calls the president on an unsecure line in a last ditch effort to get in contact with him and stop the fiasco from occuring. In the end Rachel only gets a hold of Marjorie Tench who then is led to believe that Rachel is trying to sabotage this glory of this moment. President Zach Herney talks at the press conference and unveils the extraterrestrial life that was discovered by NASA to the public, Senator Sexton knows he is ruined.

Deception Point #6

Being attacked by the Delta Force squad our group was frightened to death! The Delta Force squad came down upon them and covered them with their guns, because they wanted to kill them 1 by 1. The first person that the squad went to was Dr. Mangor,she was unconsious so they knew that they would dispose of her easily. They shoved snow down her throat and in her mouth so that she suffocated. This way was preffered because after the victim died the snow eventually melted and no evidence was to be found. As they headed off to Corky, Michael was thinking of a way for the remaining 3 group members to escape. As the squad was about to finish Corky, Michael threw up a mylar sheet that they were all harnessed to and the katabatic winds sent them flying. They group was escaping from the squad, but they weren't out of trouble yet! they couldnt get out of the harnesses and they were quickly traveling towards the edge of the glacier! At the last second Rachel remembered that Michael and her had pickaxes so they started hacking at the ropes. Gabrielle Ashe took the blackmail that was made on her to Senator Sexton's office and convinced the bodygaurd to let her get in. She found that the senator was in a meeting with people from the private space sector the ones who had according to Marjorie Tench, been giving the senator illegal funds for his campaign. In the end Rachels hacking cut the ropes but they were still sliding on the ice and they slid off the edge! They were lucky that there was a small piece of ice hanging on that the fell on. Then the Delta Force squad found them and broke the ice off. Rachel and Michael fell to the ocean but grabbed a hold of the ice and got on board. Delta Force left assuming they had terminated their targets, but they had no idea what would happen next. Rachel all of a sudden came up with an amazing idea! She took her pick and started hitting code on the ice, because these waters were monitored for sounds of whales and she hought that their message might be heard,and they would be found.

-Scott

Deception Point #5

When Michael sees the glowing water he know what the culprit is. He explains that flagellates were in the water and they were making it glow. He tests the water for salt and it is present. The water is supposed to be fresh so this is very bad for the credibility of NASA. Dr. Mangor is very skeptical because her tests showed that the ice was a solid chunk, and there were no cracks for the plankton to get in. Rachel suggests the theory that the plankton were frozen in the hole and were still living when thawed out. Since everyone is so skeptical as to what is going on the group of Dr. Mangor, Corky, Michael, and Rachel travel outside the habishpere to get data on the glacier. Gabrielle Ashe finds out that the secret person who invited her to a meeting at the White House is Marjorie Tench herself. Marhorie says that she has been supplying the anti-NASA e-mails the whole time, and she has evidence to prove that private space companies are funding Senator Sextons election illegally. Marjorie Tench offers Gabrielle some hope. Marjorie says that Gabrielle can be free from the implications of Senator Sexton's crimes if she comes out and says that she had an affair with him. As the group is traveling outside of the habisphere they leave flares to show how to get back. Right after Gabrielle denies the affair Marjorie pulls out the pictures that were evidence of it, and tells Gabrielle to either sign that she had an affair with Senator Sexton, or have the naughty pictures sent to the press. as they get out they set the scanner on the ice and it starts working. Rachel and Dr. Mangor on two seperate occasions notice the flares go out and go back on again. When the results appear they show Dr. Ming's lifeless body half-way down the hole and Dr. Mangor realizes the "meteorite" was put up through the bottom of the ice! A Delta One team member tells his supervisor that the secret has been compromised.

-Scott

2 source annotations

Research question:
Should the government have permission to wire-tap your phones and search your electronic devices if they think that you will have terrorist information?

Lewis, Harry. "Who Else Reads Your E-mail?" Christian Science Monitor Oct 2008. SIRS Researcher. SIRS Knowledge Source. Edina High School. 8 Dec 2008. http://www.sirs.com.

Harry Lewis is a cocerned writer that works for The Christian Science Monitor. In this article, Lewis examines wire-tapping in an everyday person point of view. He talks about the ease of getting information by the government(U.S.), and also icludes the censorship of messages in China. The next thing Lewis talks about is the New York Times exposing the unwarranted wire-tapping happening in the United States at this moment. Finally he ends by giving a quote from a minority in the court of a wire-tapping case which is "[H]eaven forbid that we should intrude on the government's investigatory province and actually require it to abide by the mandates of the Bill of Rights. I can only imagine what our founding fathers would think of this decision.".

Chertoff, Michael. "Searches Are Legal, Essential" USA Today Information Network Jul 2008. SIRS Researcher. SIRS Knowledge Source. Edina High School. 8 Dec 2008. http://www.sirs.com

Michael Chertoff is the secretary of homeland security. He wrote this article to try and prove that what his department is doing is right. First he argues that ever since the begining of time governments have had the right to stop dangerous people. He says that in the 21st century the dangerous things are child pornography and terrorist images which are both contained electronically. Chertoff says that only a small fraction of people are searched and many have terrorists have been caught. Finally he asserts that, not searching electronic devices at our borders would be an open window for terrorists and criminals.