and they are worth investigating and we should absolutely do that. as you point out, president obama was aggressive about doing that. meantime these leaks are being used, and they should be investigated, but they're being used as misdirection. let's think back here. secretary clinton has sloppy e-mail practices, there's no evidence that foreign powers got those e-mails, the classified information in those e-mails was not particularly dangerous, no harm was ever shown with respect to secretary clinton's e-mails. we had an investigation after investigation after investigation. the fbi comes out and talks about their investigation. now what we're hearing is, oh, don't worry about the contacts that appear to have existed between a presidential campaign and an antagonistic foreign power, what we really need to focus on is leaks? yes, we should investigate the leaks but this is a misdirection to take attention way to a challenge to our national security. meanwhile the president is actually attacking the intelligence community, calling