think someone with the access to the information is naive enough to not understand the damage other than the white house. what this smells like is that at some point somebody in the white house couldn t keep their mouth shurbgts talked to the ap. because you remember the ap had this story. how do you think they got it? they were convinced by director p pea petreaus to keep a lid on it. then they came out and said there is no public threat. the white house came out and said we knew about this going back into a. we were on top of this thing really from the beginning. what that does, making that statement, talking about it, taking credit for this foiled plot, basically is to tell al-qaida that we had a source inside al-qaida in the arabian peninsula, that s essentially what we ve done. bill: let me back up a minute. i want to get to the damage at the beginning of your answer