chief law enforcement officer of the united states telling the truth there? is there a confidentiality understanding with whistle-blowers? so there s a yes and a no. so i want i want to be very straight up with the public on this. the yes part of of course there is an assumption on the part of a whistle-blower that was built into what was a trump i mean an obama-era policy directive that not only thoif th that as long as you re going through the process we ve laid out if you re an intelligence whistle-blower. because, remember, we are talking about intelligence whistle-blowers a little bit different because they re supposed to keep state secrets. mmm-hmm. but what happened is we laid out a process by which people could come forward and say there s been a law violation or an abuse or gross fraud where we have a national intelligence
so i want i want to be very straight up with the public on this. the yes part of of course there is an assumption on the part of a whistle-blower that was built into what was a trump i mean an obama-era policy directive that not only that as long as you re going through the process we ve laid out if you re an intelligence whistle-blower. because, remember, we are talking about intelligence whistle-blowers a little bit different because they re supposed to keep state secrets. mmm-hmm. but what happened is we laid out a process by which people could come forward and say there s been a law violation or an abuse or gross fraud where we have a national intelligence issue. they said as long as you do it through the proper channels you ll you ll be protected if the inspector general says it s