guidelines that exist at cia, and there is another declassification authority. it s called the iro. i have not interfered you believe you have the authority to recuse yourself? i ll take that for the record. i may have the authority to recuse myself. i m not a lawyer. i m not sure about that. assuming you do, and i believe you do? will you agree to recuse yourself from the responsibility and the authority of making decisions about what cia information about you and your record will be classified or declassified? senator, if i had agreed with the proposals that have come up because people thought it would bed a venn day outto me, i think i would have been abodicating t follow the rules that everyone at cia follows. you also have a responsibility to answer the questions being asked of you. i m going to ask you a different question. do you would you agree that