Mitch Rapp is on the hunt for terrorists.
He was able to captured Afgan terrorists. And one of them leaked that they are going to bomb DC.
Oh and that DC bomb is nuclear.
Oh no.
The important information sent to irene and triggered a protocol that get the president into safety.
Religion give the religious strength to do nasty things to other people without failing bad. The human nature of compassion was destroyed in the mind of the religious.