nuance, and clearly, the white house is not happy that the associated press decided to go ahead and report extensively on this connection he had with this, what they described as this rogue element inside the cia. wolf, i want to ask you this because we re saying that this is a bombshell. and we know that the washington post held off on reporting it for a while. was this sort of in the cards, or were people thinking about this? you have covered this more as a washington correspondent and anchor, that it could be a possibility that he had some sort of involvement that most people didn t know about. everybody knew he spent nearly 30 years as a senior official in the fbi. he was an fbi agent, worked for the u.s. government, for the fbi. so that was widely publicized. that was widely known. that certainly was no secret. i don t think it was necessarily widely known that he had some sort of connection, that he was getting some sort of contract, if you will, he was getting some funding