itself to date. he may let the report speak for itself. but it will be critical that the report is seen by the american people. >> and congressman hymes, it's entirely possible the report won't speak for itself because as the rules suggest it can be a really minimal report simply saying here are the prosecutions we brought and here's why, here are the prosecutions we declined to bring, the so-called declinations in that rule, and here's why. and those -- that could be basically written in shorthand. >> yeah, that's right. lawrence, there's two reasons why these types of reports are generally kept private. one is -- and in this case this would be true. you don't want to disclose sources and methods, anything that would damage our national security. the second one of course, and this is typical in the prosecutorial realm, if there's somebody whose reputation would be damaged but who's not being charged with a crime, you want