community? should the intel community have known about this? look, the questions you re asking and it s not clear to me they didn t know, by the way, kate. how can we be going to the white house that we know what happened here? the russians have an alternate view. i doubt they re telling the truth, but before the president takes action. he darn well better haver is the tud about what assad was doing here. i think he s 98% certain that this was the syrian regime, but that s the first question you have for the white house if you re at the cia. the second is a question that the cia and the defense department share. if the president wants to take military action, what are the kinds of targets that might show up on the table? what targets are militarily significant? what targets might be producing these kinds of munitions and the most interesting question, what targets will bring the most pain to bashar al assad. that s what s on the table. that s a lot of conversations and what lawmake