administration. >> again, reading the stories it appears the policy we left in place was probably violated. i put that policy in place because i thought in our pursuit of leak cases we had gone too far. and concerns raised by the media were, in fact, valid ones. what we said in the policy, what i said in the policy is if you want to get access to records related to reporters, you should in the first instance go to the publishers, the people who run newspapers, the people who are in charge of the television stations, tell them that you are seeking this information so that you can negotiate something or so that people in the media have the ability to go to court to try to trustrate, to try to oppose what the justice department is trying to do. it doesn't appear on the basis of what i read and it wouldn't surprise me if, in fact, they simply ignored the policy we left in place and it was a good policy, because i think it struck real good balance between the needs of law enforcement and