learn what was going on between the russians and the campaign. they wanted to have a government investigator, someone who was trained, someone who could collect evidence, someone who could testify at a trial, to be on the ground for this operation as one of their informants made these contacts. and it just shows the extent of it. now, people on the right will say, look, this is just the latest example of the spying, that they would go so far as to put an investigator on the ground in this type of situation. from the bureau's perspective, the bureau would say, look, this gives us eyes and ears and gives us some oversight. this means our informants aren't just out there freelancing, there are folks that can keep a watch on this and make sure it doesn't go off the rails. but what it is is a picture into what counterintelligence looks like, something that we don't see a lot but we have learned so