confidence if we extend our stay in afghanistan, we can count on the support of germany or france. not telling us why they have that confidence, confidence based on a wiretap, of one of the leaders, that's -- a very different story than informing us of that kind of selector program, key leader program. that, to me is not an informed consent or even an informed process. i will be interested to get to the bottom of what did they share with us and one last point i would make, i raised this with director clapper today. if the intelligence community was too concerned about the sensitive source of information that they couldn't share with the intelligence committee what does it say it was accessible to a low-level system analyst like snow general? that, i think, raises a profound question as well. >> congressman schiff, one last question for you. i they you are a loyal democrat and strong supporter of president obama. which is more disturbing to you? president obama knowing that