"They wouldn't risk putting a traitor in the squad," he replied. "I've got a reputation for spotting double agents, they'd have known I could've blown their cover too simply." He sat himself upright, leaning on part of the wreckage. "There are certain...forces within the US that believe the President is being too timid, that we have the strength to take control of half the world and he's being too much of a pacifist. Problem is they have no basis for launching a coup. That's what this mission was intended for, show the president is so incompetent he sent his best team on a suicide mission, either force the boss to resign or, if all else fails, launch a military coup. Especially good since the only person who even suspects what they're doing is, as far as they know, lying dead on the other side of the world."