accounts for that time. once the report is delivered, the bureau has to go through its own process to terminate that employee. you'd have to ask the director why this action took place only on the eve of this hearing. i think it's a really good question but i don't know that we heard that answer today. >> paula, we only have a few more seconds left. is it up to the department of justice to prosecute or can these people be prosecuted elsewhere? >> it depends on what the allegations are where this took place. based on what we heard from the inspector general, there are suggestions that these individuals may have lied to federal agents, and that -- that would be something that federal prosecutors would pursue. ultimately that decision fell to the deputy attorney general or the attorney general who are not coming to answer any of these questions and that's really the big question going on in this hearing, why hasn't anyone been criminally prosecuted, particularly when you have this inspector general report. all of this evidence that there were not only mistakes made but deliberate actions to cover it