as failure, i guess. it s quite extraordinary. but, you know, you didn t hear a lot about their fannie mae past when they took these positions. and extraordinarily, a number of these guys who are in legal trouble, the u.s. federal treasury is bank rolling their defense. the taxpayer is bank rolling their defense against shareholder lawsuits, yes, even now after we re into the companies both fannie and freddie for $154 billion, the added insult is that taxpayers are paying their legal bills. should there be criminal charges against any of these guys where someone ends up going to prison? there was a big accounting scandal at both companies and there were no criminal charges and, of course how is that possible? well, you know, i m not a prosecutor. you got to ask the doj. are we talking about political favors? we can t go after those guys. those guys are our friends? who knows? they don t have the appetite to do it. that is clear. but there were, you know, obviously mis