olp tells us what the law should be.with olc, olc serves as an outside counsel to the executive branch agencies and serves as the gc at doj where ieas olp spearheads policy initiatives. we do other things. we beg judges for the white house and coordinate the rulemaking in the department. in terms of policy, in terms of legislation, policy initiatives, olp is known as the think tank of the justice department. >> in the reagan administration for example, they came up with the administration which resulted in the current federal sent entersing. the dealt with death penalty issues and really came up with original meaning jurisprudence. ftermath of the oklahoma city bombing. spearheaded the violence against women act. and the brady bill. in the bush administration office, -- the office initiated the patriot act. if there is something that -- you talked about state -- state secrets, whistle-blower is another issue we are working on. we work with different components within doj and also different agencies around the government.

with death penalty issues, really came forward with an original meaning jurisprudence, that is what olp did in the reagan administration. in the clinton administration they spearheaded anti-terrorism administration in the aftermath of the oklahoma city bombing, spearheaded the violence against women act and the brady bill. in the administration office, growth initiated the patriot act. if there's something, you talk about state secrets, whistle-blowers, that is another issue we are working on. there's something unique, we work with different components within doj to really balance out and work through, negotiate these institutional interests, the criminal division at the o.j. has different interests than the civil-rights division, or a d a made the primary focus, preventing trafficing, or h h s, how many have access to drugs. they have different interests and how we negotiate that to come up with the best policy, a neutral arbiter, so there are some big issues with state secrets and other issues and there really are competing interests. something that was fascinating to me, maybe this w