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2008. and he's been an aggressive defender of these kinds of programs during his time in office. he did make clear, i'll say, brooke, that congress has oversight of this, and the courts do, but we should point out that the details of this are only shared in classified settings in a way where the public cannot find out about them. so it is a very small set of people who have known about it until now. >> yeah, mentioning congressional oversight a number of times when he spoke today and the federal judges and the audit process. you know and i know, our viewers know these go back -- >> reporter: c...