An official of Earthgov, Deputy Bootweeze had the right, as did all United Planets bureaucrats, to enter the Legion HQ at any time, thanks to the leader, Lightning Lad’s, injudicious signing of a document without reading it. Bootweeze exercised this right when Lightning Lad, in a desperate attempt to keep attention-seekers from HQ, arranged for the posting of notices of Stinkwart Plague, contracted from Venusian musk-shrews.