coming from the constitution, which is the basis of our ruling and law and rule of law are government ethics as well as state department norms and regulations that are intended to keep communications and the flow of communications efficient, effective, and ethical. and when you get multiple forms of communication that people are using to say hold on, let me go to another form of communication, you know one thing at least, i know one thing as a veteran of the foreign service, and that is people want to say something off the record that they don t want on the record, too bad, didn t happen, poor choice. you will be held accountable. how does that work? you were an ambassador to two different countries and you were a state department official separately from that, former