country, and the fbi, and what they knew about what was going on inside the country, could talk to ewan another and that's what the so-called patriot act actually closed that seam. so that was one intelligence problem. the iraq intelligence problem was a little bit different but also structural. we had as many-depending on how you count them, between 15 and 17 different intelligence agencies in the united states. the defense department has one. energy department has one. state department has one. the cia has one, et cetera. the cia was one. the person who was in charge of all of those as the director of central intelligence, was also the head of the cia. so, we had this strange situation in which we had all this different intelligence reporting but obviously the director of the cia was human. he trusted his own intelligence agency more than all of these others that he was supposed to be over, and we found that some of the counterevidence about what was going on in iraq, weapons of mass destruction, programs, probably didn't get the airing and the hearing that it might have. so, we creat