abdul matullah. we have obvious problems in the search engines that were available to counterintelligence that required banks of computers and different skills on different systems. you heard from the final report we missed some of those and part of it was due to analysts not being able to hit one quick or have the answer come back. a lot of skill which people often don't have everything they need. we needed more money to fix that problem and my job was to spread it out. there were different battle on how to spread it out and each agency said i ought to get the lion's share of the work so those are different problems legal putting it on the thing i was talking about in terms of real controllership which i was used to the secretary of defense being able to do routinely. that is what i am talking about. >> well said. senator collins. >> thank you. you were talking about abdul t matullah and the programs brought about by that intelligence failure. were you consulted by the attorney-general on the decisi