someone like basovich is close to power. he will never be consulting. he has much more fundamentally damning and critically important information. he's deeply knowledgeable about american foreign policy and iraq in particular. he will be a valuable balance to some of the people we see on a lot. >> there seems to be this historical habit of the american media to rehabilitate people who have actually either broken the law or have done questionably -- questionable things in government and to rehabilitation them, as i said. start with watergate. some of those guys, convicted felons, end up as commentators on the media. look at iran-contra, which is where you had a whole bunch of senior people who were convicted of felonies, and yet they -- many of them have also been rehabilitated. the iraq invasion, you have people on cnn who were mouth pieces for the bush administration and were handing out misleading and inaccurate information to the american public and the world who are treated as legitimate, credible political commentators. i think that is a very serio