Alicia was so agitated not because Joe Ga's plan was meticulous, but because he had caught America's Achilles' heel.
By exploiting the unavoidable and relentless dirty bomb crisis facing America, a combo of attack and suppression would not only give him the upper hand but also serve to humiliate that old woman Rashiri.
The cleverest part of this plan was to take advantage of something completely unrelated to the election, have the CIA's Counterterrorism Center start from the terrorists' side, and then link up with the Shah Intelligence Agency.
At this point, all it took was for someone to leak to the media that Rashiri has connections with Shah spies and has significant financial transactions with them. She could do nothing but claim her innocence, nothing more.
Because the interest group that Big Mouth Donald belongs to could totally pressure the Counterterrorism Center.