american communications in the stream of intelligence? and he gave exactly the right answer. and afterwards, the attorney general said you re not supposed to ask a question if you don t know what the answer s going to be. i said i knew exactly what the training here was going to be, what that guy had been through, and i knew he knew the answer and i m surprised. tucker: but you sort of wonder, i wonder a lot of things about nsa, but one is how would we really know? so it s obviously highly technical and highly classified, and if i m a member of congress on one of the committees andy i call over and say i d like to see this, and i m sure i m getting those things? this is the hardest problem with intelligence, gotta be secret, and yet you want in the democracy to be sure that the government runs it and the intelligence committee is not running the government. the way we solve that ore addressed it as least is there are multiple independent and