themselves, so in 1978 president jimmy carter established an inspector general. and they do a fair and independent review. i think they did a very fair assessment here. they basically said about james comey you may have had very fair and legitimate reasons to do what you did, but frankly, it wasn't your call to make in the first place. you should not have departed from those departmental guidelines, and if you didn't, you wouldn't have been in this quandary. i think that's the right call to make here. he was appropriately called out for making that misstep. that also wasn't anything new. we've heard the criticism before from both sides of the aisle, and this was just a verification of, i think, the criticisms that people have had for a long time now. >> if you read his -- if you read what he wrote in the new york times, and i read all of it, it sounds -- you can correct me if i'm wrong.