Bartlet Greenlights Force Protection Delta Against Bahji Base Threat
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Fitzwallace briefs President Bartlet on a credible threat of an imminent attack on a US military installation, escalating the situation.
Details of the threat are revealed, including monitoring of Bahji cell activities and verification from a Russian prisoner in Chechnya, emphasizing the military nature of the threat.
Leo inquires about the most vulnerable military installations, and a list of high-risk bases is presented, focusing the threat assessment.
The General and Admiral propose immediate protective measures for bases and naval assets, which President Bartlet swiftly approves, demonstrating decisive leadership.
President Bartlet mandates half-hour updates and departs, with the Joint Chiefs standing in respect, concluding the tense briefing.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Focused intensity underscoring operational dread
Corroborates Fitzwallace's briefing by linking Kazakh morning advisors' intel and Russian Chechnya prisoner's confirmation of military targets, lists vulnerable bases including Bahrain and Incirlik, contributes clipped precision to heighten room's tension.
- • Validate threat with converging foreign intel sources
- • Prioritize base vulnerabilities for immediate action
- • Kazakh and Russian data align with NSA signals for consensus
- • Listed bases form terror cell's prime strike cluster
Gravely serious, urgency tempered by disciplined poise
Greets entering President, launches briefing on credible 48-hour Bahji attack threat, details NSA intercepts of Syrian websites and cellular calls, affirms Helsinki context, stands in deference as Bartlet departs.
- • Convey threat intel to secure presidential buy-in
- • Coordinate rapid defensive escalation
- • Bahji cell's Syrian operations pose immediate multi-site danger
- • Integrated intel demands highest alert status
Commanding confidence overlaying vigilant concern for layered crises
Enters Situation Room after hallway banter, greets Joint Chiefs crisply, references Helsinki reactor crisis to contextualize threat, probes intel sources skeptically, decisively authorizes Force Protection Delta and harbor orders, mandates half-hourly updates for 48 hours, rises commandingly to exit as all stand.
- • Verify and neutralize imminent terror threat through informed action
- • Project resolute leadership to unify military response
- • Multiple intel streams confirm threat's credibility post-Helsinki
- • Proactive restrictions avert disaster despite uncertainty
Steadfast vigilance honoring chain of command
Collectively greets President upon entry, absorbs briefing with disciplined nods, via General recommends Force Protection Delta to restrict bases, via Admiral pushes harbor security for carriers, affirms orders with 'Yes sir,' rises in unison to salute Bartlet's exit.
- • Secure presidential approval for defensive protocols
- • Execute base lockdowns and naval repositioning
- • Force Protection Delta essential to mitigate 48-hour window
- • Harbor maneuvers bolster fleet against asymmetric threats
recommends ordering all carriers and destroyers into harbor for enhanced water security
- • secure approval for naval assets repositioning
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
Invoked by Bartlet as recent site of reactor crisis betrayal, framing the new Bahji threat's urgency and testing intel credibility amid post-summit geopolitical fractures, heightening the room's sense of unrelenting global peril.
Man flags as key target in Saudi desert, shelters pulsing under Delta noose from Syrian-Kazakh whispers, duty officers radar-sweeping amid arid vulnerability.
Cited by Man as frontline Turkish base, runways taut under Delta, sentries sweating pre-strike as NSA pins it in 48-hour frenzy.
Man lists as exposed Omani runway scar, guillotine-hovering under Delta from intel convergence, ops throbbing with half-hourly alerts to D.C.
Referenced via Russian-held prisoner's verification of military strikes, locking intel convergence and escalating base alerts, where harsh interrogations yield pivotal confessions fueling Bartlet's lockdown.
Situation Room Man cites early-morning advisors' dispatches aligning with NSA data, confirming military targets and amplifying threat consensus, pulling steppe horizons into White House's defensive calculus.
Listed among most vulnerable by Man, its Kuwaiti runways and revetments invoked under Delta clampdown, diesel ops cells bracing as NSA echoes amplify Bahji peril.
Broadly named alongside Jaber Air Base as vulnerable Kuwaiti expanse, radar horizons shimmering under terror watch, folding into Bartlet's base-wide Delta authorization.
Highlighted by Man as top vulnerable site housing Navy's Fifth Fleet, catalyzing Admiral's harbor recall and Delta protocols, embodying Gulf flashpoint in terror's bullseye.
Pinpointed as operational base for Bahji cell by Fitzwallace, with NSA tracking websites and codes there, transforming distant sands into epicenter of intercepted threats driving the 48-hour crisis response.
Organizations Involved
Institutional presence and influence
Fitzwallace cites their monitoring of Syrian Bahji websites for picture codes and cellular intercepts, providing core credibility to the 48-hour threat, igniting presidential action in intel-to-orders pipeline.
Cast as Syrian-operating cell behind credible attack plot on U.S. bases, their websites and calls dissected in briefing, galvanizing Delta response and framing antagonist force in White House siege.
Man spotlights Bahrain contingent as top target, prompting Admiral's carrier/destroyer harbor order under water security, Bartlet's approval thrusting it into Delta's naval pivot.
Man references their dawn dispatches tracking Bahji assaults, aligning with NSA for threat lock, foreign expertise fortifying Situation Room consensus on base vulnerabilities.
Embodied by uniformed chiefs in Situation Room, they salute Bartlet, recommend and receive approval for Delta protocols and harbor security via General and Admiral, rising in synced deference to affirm chain-of-command resolve against Bahji strikes.
Situation Room Man notes their Chechnya prisoner verifying military targets, extending Helsinki intel aid to pierce Bahji veil, their grudging contribution sharpening U.S. alert amid rival dynamics.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"The initial briefing on the terrorist threat naturally progresses to the Coast Guard's interception of the ammonium nitrate plot."
Part of Larger Arcs
Key Dialogue
"FITZWALLACE: "Mr. President, we have reason to believe there will be an attack on a US military installation sometime in the next 48 hours. We have a credible threat.""
"BARTLET: "We just got done with Helsinki and the reactor.""
"BARTLET: "So order it. I don't care if we know anything new or not, I need updates every half hour for the next 48 hours.""