. >> mathy perez, competitive price institute. there has been a lot of discussion about how this -- congress doesn't seeve a lot information about intelligence agencies, that they are very object secure. what is left -- >> does anyone have thoughts on that? >> i will take a shot at it. >> congress has said if you don't answer the question in the right way, you get a misleading report. secret intelligence agencies collect secrets to have a secret, not to give them away. the congress of the united states has not established a track record on very sensitive secrets that leads anyone to a great deal of confidence, other than to see if they can maintain that secret. strong bases in pakistan is it one example. i think one of the things the president has done here, by endorsing the n.s.a., biby -- ing him the 21st century by he says we have new documentation that says that is legal. and we're going to tell you what we're doing. the problem of getting agencies to answer the question, even if the question isn't rightly phrased, is usually,