It took some persuasion but finally Derek decided to let her write and publish the article.
The main problem he had was the lack of corroborative sources. Sure she had the computer files, and they screamed "print me" loudest of all, but one eye witness who didn't want to be named? That was a bit hard for the editor to swallow. But with what did happen on July 4th, Derek gave the green light and Faith set to work.

Granted there were conditions, publishing something like that always brought heat. Mostly from the cops, so Faith had to agree to work with the police if they came a'calling. As long as she didn't have to name her source, she was fine with it. It was the other type of heat both she and Derek were worried about. When the story broke there would be a few very unhappy individuals whose last bastion purely human rights would be disgraced, and no one ever liked having their believes meddled with.

So when she hit the send button and watched the progress bar go from 0 to 100%, Faith sighed and hoped Novack wasn't the type to hold grudges.

Now the only other thing she had left to do, was to turn over the actual physical files (minus a backup or ten) to the cops. Something about them