obviously, with our lawyer, with the editor in chief of the publication. our feeling, though, was that in this case, there was a compliance case in which the top members — top executives at a company — claimed ignorance about a situation when, in fact, we had a lot of information — some of which we did not use, we did actually withhold some of it for the sake of people involved when we felt there was any shadow of a doubt — and we also ran everything by the company. to tell them what we were doing. and help me understand process in the financial times. you've amassed all this information — you and your other reporting colleagues — you are sitting there in front of, i assume, the editor of the paper and your lawyers. tell me about the process that takes is from an investigation that is almost published and one which is. it's a long one, actually. so, in the first case, you know, you go along