parency and secrecy. this white paper came out which shows you how contested it is, that it s now becoming an issue for republicans and democrats alike. john brennan said he wants to optimize transparency and secrecy and that is hard to understand except what s happened here is we don t have all of the legal memos, the republicans don t have the legal memos and senator ron wyden s words, we should know that authority. the summary for the argument is no substitute for the argument itself. right. and there s no way, that i think you could defend keeping the legal rationale secret. absolutely. i have a kind word for brennan, at least one. those are the wrongd words. what he should have said h very to balance the trade-off and ask the question is it going to hamper the effort to try to chase after people. that s a much more defensible