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Have to wonder why which is why i raised the question. >> sean: prior to that the modification of executive order 12333, it was not usual practice to widely disseminate. if this happened in november and december, that didn't happen until january, the alteration of 12333, is there anybody you saw that had dissemination of these documents? >> i don't want to get in the weeds here. i don't believe that change impacted what i saw. with that said, i will say thatd the dissemination was pretty far and wide and like i've said before, i think it appears to me that it was all legal. the question is sho...

>> if we do expect that his name was unmasked, i think the key would be able to figure out who unmasked the names and who requested that unmasking, there has to be a record of that. once we get a hold of that, we'll know a lot more from there. >> sean: yeah, do you suspect that people go to jail over thi this? >> once you understand who did the unmasking, then you have to know who it was pushed down to, what's the complete audience of people that would have had the name, then you know at least the initial folks that would know about it. >> sean: i think that goes back to 12333 because it could...

You the biggest take away from your interview and it was a great interview with congressman's b25, he said some this was not 12333, it was the change to allow broad dissemination of the material, he says it doesn't advocate that which means this information could well have been disclosed without any cover of legitimacy under at an executive order, not that that executive order was legitimate in my view, that executive order may be gone. you know what i think we got here? i think we got a constitutional crisis of james comey's making. this is a constitutional crisis from comey and he was an adm...

Evidence it's going to expose what's been going on. we are going to have more facts tomorrow when the information is delivered to the chairman. if you're looking at the scope of this, i think the most important thing that chairman's p25 said, you brought up the expansion of 12333. the question we have to be asking ourselves is what changed? if it is legal to collect this evidence, not the unmasking of all of these names if this is collected legally, whether something else happened before this that were not aware of yet? i saw chairman's be 25 dancing around that a little bit. >> sean: you've c...

>> sean: in the case of any type of leak that would be a violation of the espionage act, that would be a felony, that would be five years potentially in prison? >> that's correct. it appears that happens, we won't know till we get all the details, but from my perspective, it appears like that was a crime. >> sean: that raises another question, you talked about it being widely dispensed within the intelligence community meeting many people saw the surveillance of the president-elect and his transition team and they were identified, then it goes to the issue to how many people have access to it ...