committee earlier this year and said something about the testimony to the committee caused them on notify the justice department that he should be subject to a criminal referral. that's also new news. we didn't know that before today. but did that criminal referral from burr and warner, did that lead to this action today against sam patten? it kind of doesn't seem like it. it's interesting. look at the actual language from the statement that burr and warner put out today. this is what they said. "we can confirm that mr. at that timeten-produced documents to the committee and was interviewed by committee staff. due to concerns about certain statements made by mr. patten, the committee made a criminal referral to the department of justice. while the charge and resultant plea today do not appear to directly involve our referral, we appreciate their referral of -- review of this matter." so this is fuzzy in an interesting way. sam patten testifies to the senate intelligence committee. something about that causes them