there and trying to get secrets, for instance, to help american companies or just because they can, but because there s a national security interest. but also remember this issue that we ve been covering, jake, a lot. foreign leaders, the nsa spying on foreign leaders such as angela merkel, her phone calls. made the germans very angry. that will now have to get senior level approval, approval at highest level in the white house by the president if the nsa is going to be spying on those kinds of communications. you know, earlier today i spoke with a senior administration official about this, and he told me this. he said, listen, they know they have a trust gap, not just with the american public but with the foreign public, and they are trying to address that here with hard measures. the white house is taking this to heart, and what i was told is that the president is going to review these. he s going to accept some of these recommendations and then in january he s going to speak before