mr. drumheller, you served as a station chief. in this case, take this case, in nigeria, what is -- what was supposed to happen when the father walked in to express concerns. >> well, it varies from embassy to embassy because you have to work out the arrangement with the embassy. normally, the walk-in of this type would be handled either by the cia personnel or by the embassy security officer. then you would write up a report from what he said, especially given who he was, the prominent guy neverian, well cone -- well-known totem wasee. and this is what they did -- >> they did that. >> it went in this information and i think charlie and paul, back me up on this, these cable goes automatically to the national counterterrorism center anyway. i think there is an idea that this has to go through cos cia and be released. in information goes out automatically to the recipients and -- but then you have to have, to make it really work effectively you have to be able to have an analyst, an experienced analyst call up, be able to call up an