they look at the guys that they don't like politically anymore, and they pull their clearances or they pull their salaries or throw them into jail. this is very in my view something that's very common in developing countries, but unfortunately the united states ought not to be doing these types of things. >> carey, the administration is thinking of doing this because these people have politicized intelligence, which is almost laughable if it wasn't so kind of just serious and sad, i guess. to steve's point, this is the kind of stuff you think about happening, i don't know, under mugabe in zimbabwe or some part of the world where democracy is not as prized as, you know, and dissent isn't allow and transparency isn't as prizeds a it supposedly is here. >> that's right, anderson. i think it's worth us taking a minute to pause on why it is that these intelligence community leaders have been