it is because the inspector general disagrees with the director of national intelligence, because the director of national intelligence doesn't want to give this information to congress. clear from manu's reporting that the i.g. went as far as he could go without really doing kind of subverting what his boss wanted him to do, but still he made it pretty clear. this is a five-alarm fire in the intelligence world. the other way it is very gray, josh can speak to this better than i can is technically -- technically -- i believe that a president, any president, can declassify information. it's just that, it's a question how he allegedly went about doing it and how it could or could not have hurt the sources and methods that the national security and i.c. community take such pains to protect at any rate. >> to that point, josh, yes, the