thought was my last job ever in the government as the deputy attorney general and i appointed fat rick fitzgerald in chicago to oversee a very sensitive investigation involving allegations that bush administration officials outed a cia operative. and so what happened is the team of agents that had been working for -- up a chain that came to me was moved over and worked under patrick fitzgerald. so it happens. >> thank you. >> and last senator blumenthal. >> thank you, madam chair. to take the an alg-- the analogi think we were toward the end of the dentist visit and fortunately there is no limited time that the last questioner can take. >> my dentist sometimes asks questions too. >> to pursue the line of questioning that senator horrona just finished, there is abund about precedent -- abundant precedent for appointment of a special prosecutor. >> yes. >> and that has happened frequently in the in the history of the department of justice and you mentioned one in your experience. also then zig knee appointed [ inaudible ] archie bald cox [ inaudible ]. >> so this would not be a earth shaking seismi