one piece of that has been the u.s. releasing so much intelligence about russian planning prior attacks to undermine russian information operations. now we have the defense department declassifying, in effect, intelligence about what senior advisers are telling or not telling vladimir putin and you say this is a fascinating strategy. tell us why. it has been absolutely remarkable to watch this. the fact we re declassifying some of the most sensitive intelligence we have, learning what the advisers are telling putin, imagine the type of access we have to have to know that and frankly, the source of the methods we re putting at risk to do that but it s messing with his head. no bigger insult to a former kgb officer to tell him he s misinformed about his own war and military and even calling him a butcher probably considers that a twisted phrase but misinformed, he s really upset about that. does not want to be called