apolitical the intelligence community is. i worked side-by-side with many of the authors and signatories of yesterday's letter, of the leaders, and today's letter of a wide array of people from across the cia, from every directorate. and i've got to tell you, i never knew the party affiliations of the people that sat next to me when i was working with them. we simply didn't talk politics. it wasn't part of the job. we checked our politics at the door. we left the politics to the politicians, and we did our job. now, i found out later that some of them were die hard republicans, diehard democrats, diehard socialists, diehard libertarians. okay. they were all just doing their job as intelligence officers. it is a different world than the political world that most of the people talking about this on capitol hill and in the administration are talking about. there's some level of misunderstanding about that. that's part of what we were doing by writing this letter and signing it today, is to say, let's keep national security objective and apolitical and stop playing political games with things like security