bipartisan basis to establish an oversight structure for cyber operations, for terrorism operations, and for sensitive military operations. and after oversight structure that allows the department to have the flexibility it needs to operate in a volatile, rapidly changing world and still give us the ability to exercise our duties under the constitution. now, the basis for all of those in all three of those areas is that we get timely, accurate information from the department. and this failure even if it was ordered by the white house, undermines the ability to have that sort of oversight structure. i've been a member of the intelligence committee for ten years. our work depends on getting accurate, timely information from the intelligence community. if the president can violate the law and say no in this case we're not going to give you the information, it undermines the oversight process that we have