>> as you know we're already in a heightened environment of threats, online threats, offline threats coming in all sorts of forms. we've really been in this state since 2020 and even before that. and this seems to be the latest epidemic. i'll point, though, too, even march of 2023, less than a year ago, when within one week, dozens off schools across the country were swatted and, you know, causing lockdowns, et cetera. so, it seems to have gone from, sort of, schools to government buildings to synagogues as part of, you know, terrorism after the israel-hamas war broke out, terrorism-type of efforts to try to terrorize and intimidate. and now we're seeing, like you say, a whole episode of attacks on current and former government officials. and i think part of it is to -- i think the motive is often to intimidate the subjects, particularly in the individual cases, where you're calling in hoax reports to -- reports to people's houses like in the case of judge chutkan, jack smith, so many others you mentioned in your earlier statement.