they are classified. many critics have said for years at the fbi and other agencies have been classified materialoio avoid embarrassment. this may be a most public and relatively rare example of that. there is nutley remotely in this memo that justifies the rhetorid used by minority leader pelosi, ranking member schiff. they all say that there would be dire consequences. the fbi director said thereit would be grave problems that would be released. >> tucker: the freedom of information act as i understand that the said unless the government has a compelling reason to keep something secretive has to release everything unless it can show that it shouldn't because it belongs to the public. it seems in washington the instinct is opposite, everything is classified unless there is political pressure to declassify it. >> anyone looking at this memo can see that it's written to avoid sources and methods. it's basically what we had already heard the difference is that there were discussions of