Bush Leaks Sink America’s Security. DUH!!
By Larry Johnson on October 9, 2007 at 6:45 PM in Current Affairs
The third time can be a charm or an out. When it comes to the Bush Administration’s mishandling of security information the jury is in–throw the bums in jail. Today’s news detailed in Leslie’s post below describes how the Bush Administration’s eagerness to brief Faux News resulted in blowing a private sector operation to track Al Qaeda. But this ain’t the first time. And on what basis can any reasonable person believe that Bush and company actually give a rat’s ass about protecting classified info or punishing those who compromise secrets?
Valerie Plame Wilson anyone? The Bush Administration tossed around her name and the identity of her cover company–Brewster Jennings–as part of a deliberate strategy to discredit her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for having the audacity to tell the American people the truth about the lies George W. Bush told in ginning up a case for war in Iraq. Security be damned. They had some politicking to do.
But they did not stop to rest on their laurels. Hell no! The Presidential campaign beckoned. On the eve of the Republican presidential convention in 2004, the Bush Administration compromised a key Al Qaeda operative who was helping the Brits and us track Al Qaeda’s computer activities. As I wrote back in 2005:
I also seem to recall that the Bush White House used leaks in the midst of the 2004 Presidential campagin to burnish the President’s image and keep Americans on edge. Remember the name of Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan? His name was leaked to the New York Times in August of 2004 while Khan was still cooperating with Pakistani, CIA, and British authorities as part of a sting operation against Osama bin Laden’s network. On the eve of the Republican convention, unnamed senior NSC officials told New York Times reporters that Mr Khan was being used to send e-mails to al-Qaida members as part of a coordinated effort to identify and dismantle terrorist networks. Just because this leak destroyed the secret program’s effectiveness was no big deal because he helped remind Americans that George Bush was the only one who could keep us safe.
And now the Bin Laden tape. At some point the American people must acknowledge that if this pack of buffoons in the White House cared half as much about tracking down and eliminating terrorists as they do about sharing secrets with the media there would be no war on terrorism. Bin Laden and his buddy, Dr. Zawahiri, would be dead or in jail.
But that is not the case. These clowns use classified and sensitive information to satisfy cheap political objectives and, in the process, are putting American lives at risk and undermining the ability of our intelligence officers to recruit spies and assure them we can keep secrets. Impeachment anyone?
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Question: Who gets to lose their security clearance?
Answer: Deafening silence.
The result is demoralizing and tragic. Even the top people cannot do their job with one hundred percent effectiveness under these circumstances. Decisions are tainted because in the back of the mind, one wonders if their honest and accurate work will be played out in politics. A true disaster for our national security.
Wasn’t this tape leaked around the time of Petreus’s testimony to congress? Another confluence of politics and terror. Olberman will have a feild day with this info. Special comment anyone?
Larry thanks for pointing out thse three things. We need to keep it in the public. These people are TRAITORS! None may dare call it treason, but I do.
I read a brief item today, somewhere, sorry no linky, about this private company and some of the other things they’ve told this administration. Whoever it was, was implying that there were some behind the doors convoluted ties to the WH. Care to enlighten us?
And also, how can a private company know more than the CIA? And was that tape ever authenticated? I’ve completely forgotten, if I ever knew.
The following is taken directly from SITE’s website….
“The SITE Institute (Search for International Terrorist Entities) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides information related to terrorist networks to the government, news media, and general public.”
Note that in addition to supplying the government they supply info to “news media and the general public”.
Also since these people are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization where does their income come from?
Do people pay for their information?
How do they classify who gets what info?
Highest bidder???
While what the Bush Admin probably did as far as leaks are concerned, is bad, it seems way more dangerous that a private non profit should be involved in the gathering and distribution of intelligence information?
Larry am I wrong or has outsourcing reached a new high er low or whatever?
Non profit tax status does not mean no income. Somebody has to pay the bills and the hired staff. For example, Kaiser Permanente is non-profit. They have a huge revenue, but since there’s no stockholders to pay dividends to, all income goes into operations. Also most churches are non-profit, assuming the IRS doesn’t ding them when they make political statements.
Actually Larry would be the perfect one to comment on private contractors, since he is one himself.
This administration is unbelievable!!
Larry keep the heat on!!
Secretive..borderline unlawful, incompetent, well the list goes on and on and on…
Val Plame, AQ leaks, Torture, wiretaps…
What the hell is going on? I can’t wait till these guys are out of office!! Let’s all vote the bums are out!!
Leslie: How do you use the link button?
Sorry the hoopster is a pretty new blogger (idiot)
FYI the link button does not work for many of us here, including me.
The format of the link is:
name the link here
followed with no space by
all with no spaces (you can however have spaces in the name of the link which appears in blue text in preview, and after you post the comment)
Notice if I had typed it exactly how it works, with http://noquarter.net inside the quotes where it says “the link goes here”, you would have seen the following:
name the link here
point the mouse to the blue link and look at the bottom left of your IE browser window and you’ll see the noquarter link.
If you don’t want to type this all out every time, save the string as a text file. Then when you want to use it, paste in the right stuff and copy the whole thing into this comment box. Afterwards when you close the text file template, answer no to save changes, so it’s ready for next time.
OOps, notice how what I previewed didn’t come out right in the post.
Well, you could always find the format the way I did, by clicking view, then source, then searching for a link in a web page and seeing how the string is structured.
Sorry I’m not the best teacher in the world.
Hoopster,
As YBNormal says, the link button doesn’t work in comments. The codes are the following…only substitute open and closed carots > for parentheses. If I use the carots in the example below they’ll read as coding.
(a href=”www.yourlinkhere.com”)whatever you type here will appear blue and act as the link (/a)
OK?
P.S. After memorizing this, if you want to get snazzy with html coding, do a google search for an html dictionary. You’ll get lots of hits, use the one that’s user friendly for you. You’ll be an expert in no time.
you’re awesome leslie!!
the hoopster is a rookie..
BTW..while nobody is looking..you do a great job here and it is my honor to met you..
regards…
hey hoops, you are not alone. I am too dense to even understand the ’simplified’ instructions. I just use cut and paste… that was the new trick this old dog learned, but since it still works, haven’t been able to move on…
I’ll just add that if you want to see an example of how the macros and so forth are laid out, just left-click on the page, then choose “view page source” or the closest equivalent, then search in the page that appears for the text you’re interested in.
Incidently, there’s a site called w3schools.com that has a set of tutorials and “try it yourself” pages for various HTML macros. Here’s the one for anchors (AKA “links”).
Slight correction, right click in the web page in empty space somewhere. Select ‘view source’ (or equivalent), then all the code opens in notepad. This all assumes MS Windows.
If you want to get slick and quick, you can get ahold of a hot-key shorthand program like PRD or ESP, or there’s the cheap and dirty way I use, which is, paste templates of your favorite stuff into notepad and save as text file.
While you’re in notepad, or any text editor for that matter, click edit and note all the keyboard shortcuts, which are really faster than clicking all over the place; especially if you have a laptop with one of those touch pads for a mouse. One thing you won’t see there, which is highlighting text by holding shift and using navigation keys - arrows, home, end, pageDown, ctrl-R-shift for a whole word, etc.
“Republican Chickenhawks Commit Treason and All I Get is This Lousy T-Shirt…and a Big-Ass Tax Bill!”
The question we must answer is not whether the Bush administration is acting rationally or competently but what rule-book the administration is playing by. A victory in the war on terror would amount to a reduction in the administration’s ability to manipulate the American people by fear. Why should Bush & Company want the threat of terror to abate? They are playing by a different set of rules, and by the standards of their rule-book they are succeeding.
Is it possible that the Bushites leaked the Bin Laden tape with the deliberate intent of destroying an intelligence operation? It may seem far-fetched, but much of what they have done since 2001 has seemed far-fetched, and look what they have accomplished. Consider who has raked in billions of taxpayers dollars from all this far-fetched behavior. Look at how they have aggrandized the power of the presidency at the expense of Congress and the rights of the American people.
These are not buffoons; these are not misguided or incompetent leaders with the best interests of the nation at heart. Let us not delude ourselves that they share our values. They are ruthless authoritarian plutocrats that have perpetrated crimes for which we hanged Nazis after WWII: waging unprovoked wars of aggression, engaging in routine torture, and directing military attacks that primarily affect the civilian population, such as the deliberate destruction of public water systems. God help us.
Excellent comments TomL, and I agree with all you said. They are just doing what they intended to do all along, and as you said, doing it very well. As I read your words, I was reminded of how powerful these people are, to be able to get away with all these horrors. I pray I will live to see them held accountable in the Hague.
I am not refuting what you have said here –actualy, I am quite sympathatic to it– but there is an assumption not being challenged in all the reading I have done on the subject. Namely, that SITE is being totally upfront and honest about their sources being burned.
Its a convenient stiff-arm that provides daylight between them and WH propoganda. SITE’s motives could very well have nothing to do with intel or security.
Its being played as a one-off. I wonder.
Of course it’s possible! Probable! It’s not as though there’s no precedent for this, they (cheneyCo) knocked out Val Plame’s cover firm monitoring WMDs in Iran and elsewhere - resulting in who knows how many deaths - so more perfidy can only be expected.
KeithO may say they did it for feelgood PR, but as they say, we’re here now: they knocked out a vital terrist-tracking apparatus. Time to believe our lying eyes.
Again, when do the actions of these domestic enemies qualify as Treason? Has the word been lost? There are pretty High Crimes here.
This whole group is a big PACK of TRAITORS, and should be treated as such. It seems to matter not a whit if our country is torn to pieces, our people suffering with lack of adequate health care, or anything else, so long as they get what they want: Eternal war and power. Money has become thier god…
Impeachment should have been accomplished LONG AGO… it should have occured when Val was outed, if anyone in congress even cared. From the stolen election in Florida, right up until today, this group in control of this country have done nothing, NOTHING but bring calamity and destruction… I no longer hold out hope for Impeachment… our Congress is complicit in allowing these war mongers controll without oversight. They will not change thier ways, unless the sheeple wake up and demand it. And I am afraid that will happen on the next cold day in hell…
OT, but since only Hillary is going to run in the Michigan primary, and the votes of the people will not be included into the primary results, I am not sure how I should vote. Perhaps a Republican who will most easily lose to a Democrat… best choice??, I have been thinking of writing in bushie boy. probably won’t matter anyways, as I fear the elections will be ‘postponed’. more so, I fear blackwater roaming our streets in the guise of ‘keeping order’… I want my country back…
….I fear blackwater roaming our streets in the guise of ‘keeping order’… I want my country back….
I’m so glad I saw the handwriting on the wall in 2000 and got the hell out of there. But maybe the handwriting was so clear because I was calling the FBI and the INS about suspicious things that were going on around my home in Austin, Texas and they didn’t do didly squat. In fact, the INS asked me, “Where does he sleep?”, making it sound like they were going to come and get him in the middle of the night! I responded again to requests for information after the events of 9-11 and still nobody did squat! Arrividerci America! Buona fortuna, Americani.
What is the standard for holding anyone in the Bush administration accountable? With Clinton it was lying about a consensual affair…not even…a quickie. So what is the standard for the Bushies?
Aren’t we way past the broadest standards?
Who do the Bushies think they’re working for? For the country or themselves? Silly me…just asking.
Today’s revelations in the Washington Post regarding the Bush administration’s September 7th leaking of an Osama Bin Laden videotape served to once again highlight the hypocritical Republican double-standard when it comes to the publication of classified national security information.
As the CIA black sites and illegal NSA domestic surveillance stories all show, the President and his amen corner are quick to call for the prosecution of those who reveal White House criminality. But when Bush and his GOP allies through political calculation or just sheer incompetence release national security secrets, that’s another matter altogether.
For the details, see:
“Leaked Bin Laden Tape Shows GOP Double Standard.”
Bu$h LLP appears stupifyingly incompetent through the traditional lens that values country, family, military service, and the Constitution.
But through the lens of globalized financial interests ( wedded to munitions, energy, and intel), Bu$h LLC is chillingly ’successful’; new oil contracts can now be inked with Kurdistan and other balkanized interests.
If hidden interests are using American government as a cutout for private, commercial interests then a ’security breach’ may be a PR problem, but it’s not a legal problem.
Bu$h LLC definitions of ‘legal issues’ fall into two categories: (1) persecuting political opponents, and (2) insisting that the laws don’t apply to any Bu$h LLC activities, decisions, or communications.
The incident you raise is probably a PR problem in their eyes, but not a legal one.
Think Congress will ever catch on….?
Color me skeptical.
Meanwhile, information collected on “protected” citizens is kept from their inspection, seemingly forever.
For Larry and Joe Wilson, et al., with apologies to Rudyard Kipling. Nota bene: “Cassandra=a name applied to any person whose prophecies of evil are not believed.”
Cassandra’s Burden
Take up Cassandra’s burden
Speak truth to Flatheads of high station,
Too exalted they to heed advice
But poltroons enough to ruin a nation.
You have no grand designs to sell
Just interests to defend,
You talk a different language
That they just can’t comprehend.
Watch them leap into a war
With mythconceptions plenty,
Bid them scramble out again
Before wasting every penny.
Today somewhere a soldier died
‘Midst heat and fear and mire,
You’d gladly see those Pooh-bahs
Well in the line of fire.
So take up Cassandra’s burden
Wear their scorn as your reward,
Let them give their flunkeys medals
Fool’s gold’s more than just a word.
Keith Olbermann is all over this tonight! HURRAH!!!!! He had on Evan Kohlmann, who used to work at SITE, and asked him about the consequences to the intelligence community–for the Bush administration to burn yet another intelligence source on al Qaeda. The loopholes that SITE used to track al Qaeda’s internet communications have been shut down now, and it’s rare to find these loopholes. It takes a lot of work, and the government needs to hire private contractors to help do this type of work. [Especially since Bush has the NSA wire-tapping everyone and their cousin, which is a lot of info to sift through.]
Olbermann played video of White House press secretary Dana Perino trying to explain how the leak occurred. Perino had three different versions of events.
The Olbermann transcript should be up tomorrow night. Maybe Crooks & Liars will get the videotape.
Speaking of the NSA and wire-tapping…if the Democrats expand Bush’s domestic-spying powers I WILL SCREAM so loud, you’ll hear me in Oshkosh! The Bushies won’t need a FISA warrant either!
Oh, and isn’t it just perfect that while the Bushies burn al Qaeda sources, they’re also warning Congress that al Qaeda is expected to place agents inside the US. It’s just a coincidence that this latest terror alert is occuring on the eve of a Congressional vote on expanding Bush’s FISA powers.
Wonder if the Bushies read the latest report that the war on terror is fueling al Qaeda? Talk about DUH!!!!
Leslie,
You’re going to make me believe that they are working with the the proxy terrorists Wait. I already believe that.
How many times did Osama escape capture?
I earlier submitted a brief comment asking, “is it possible that this could have been leaked by someone in one of the federal intelligence agencies in an effort to damage the work being done by contractors that should be their turf?” (not word for word, but that’s the gist.
It appeared when I first posted it, but I can’t find it anymore. Not sure if this was removed by a monitor or simply lost in a computer glitch — or this is a duplicate, and I’m just too blind to find my first one.
In any case, I’d be interested in feedback.
Never mind. Wrong thread! (Duh!)
Turf war?
Well, one never knows, do one?
On the other hand, I lean towards the idea of ‘enemy maintenence’; a means to perpetuate the war on terror endlessly, against an eternal enemy.
Sort of like saying, “lookie, we gotta Osama” to attract attention, while at the same time ensuring he still continues to fuel their authoritarian policies by his continued existence.
Didn’t the Bush Administration also brag about how it was able to listen in on Al Qaeda’s cell phones? That would mean they’d already reached “out” status before this screwup.
A link off topic thought you all would want to know…..
US Embassy opening in Baghdad delayed indefinitely……
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N09435348.htm
emptywheel has an interesting take on this at her site. The short version is that it’s more than meets the eye. To quote EW:
In an update:
From that story, SITE strikes me as one of those contractors you learn to avoid after a while.
Thanks Cujo359,
Been reading Empty Wheel’s post and Laura Rozen’s, who links to the JAWA Report here.
After reading all that, I still come away thinking that even if SITE wasn’t the first to obtain the al Qaeda videotape, even if others had copies too…the White House still burned SITE’s backdoor into al Qaeda. This is something the White House has a nasty habit of doing, and it hurts our intelligence efforts.
“At some point the American people must acknowledge..”.
Not quite. That responsibility rests entirely with congress. As it has all along.
I’m an American. Have been all my life. Don’t slander me with that accusation.
Congress is not the American people assembled. Congress is corporate America assembled. And during the past 7 years they have collectively betrayed this nation in a manner that makes Benedict Arnold look good.
Purposeful incompetence by the Bush criminal cabal is part of the plan of which there is none because the more unstable the Middle East,the more profits for Halliburton,Exxon/Mobil,Blackwater et. al.,and the numerous munitions companies that Ike warned us about, ie. the Military Industrial complex that is taking us right down fascism`s yellow brick road; and it`s all brought to you by criminals sans truth sans honor with a cowering Congress,in a supporting role, fearful of hate mail sent with a bit of weapons grade anthrax.Did I mention the MSM? The ass kissing pundits contributing poor journalism,no truth,no honor,no courage,and grandiosity to mass confusion.Not all,but most
No truth; no honor;no courage,but damn good shredders,and delete buttons.The only thing they excel at.
Still great, even in retirement, Paul Conrad
The Search for Bin Laden Continues
Congress or reporters or both should find out who was reponsible for leaking this latest info about Al Qaeda to Fox News. They should be charged with treason.
It is increasingly clear that the Bush White House DOESN’T WANT these people captured because they NEED them out there, frightening the American people into giving them an absurd amount of political power all in the name of “keeping us safe” from the very people they keep helping to elude capture.
You might be interested to read about the use of terrorism by the rightwing groups in Italy. I think the same tactics are being used right here in the US against us now.
Pick up The Puppet Masters; The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy by Philip Willan.
Here is a quote from the book: Terror increases people’s desire for security at the expense of their desire for change.
Oh, don’t impeach them, Larry — it takes too long. Just take away their security clearances.
Sir, how can impeachment take too long when the articles were being discussed even before the last election? Remember that Conyers was having “hearings” on the matter then.
But it would be all for naught. The Speaker said again yesterday that she feels Bush has not done anything to merit impeachment. I have a real hard time believing the person second in line to the presidency does not understand “high crimes and misdemeanors” No wonder this country is in the shape it is in.
It’s Mission Accomplished until the next president; The Cheney/Bush plan was, all along, to run out the clock, while raiding the Treasury, and they are right on schedule. Their original plan is succeeding far beyond their wildest dreams.
I think it’s amazing that the old coot Cheney hasn’t had the major heart attack some predicted he would.
C - haven’t you ever heard of the expression “too rich to die?”
Yes, Kitty, I have hard it. But it certainly doesn’t apply to me. Any suggestions on how I might achieve such status (as in some extra income)? Anybody?
Just want to amplify what readerOfTeaLeaves and Sully18 mention upthread: DON’T dismiss the actions of BushCo as deriving from incompetence - they’re not incompetent. They’re far worse than incompetent. The word is overused, but I’d say they’re evil. They display many of the traits of true sociopaths.
The patina of incompetence is how they are allowed to get away with this stuff. We don’t demand accountability from incompentent people. These people are following a plan and they know exactly what they’re doing - they just don’t care about the consequences. They destroy peoples lives, they spit on the Constitution, they debase the country in the eyes of the world - and it’s all just collateral damage as far as their great Neo-con vision is concerned.
Great work, Larry, now and in the past.
Just wanted to add the British “plot” to blow up airplanes over the Atlantic that was leaked by the US before the Brits had gathered enough evidence.
Added together with all the over-hyped domestic plots, whose common trait seems to be that there’s an government “informant” supplying most of the impetus to get things rolling, and it becomes quite clear that BushCo puts more importance on “looking” like they’re keeping us safe than they do on actually keeping us safe.
It just reaffirms the old saying that Republicans are better at getting elected, but Democrats are better at actually governing. Too bad.
“Once is happenstance,
Twice is coincidence,
Three times is enemy action.”
Finally got a reply from my Congressperson concerning impeachment. Maybe it’s dawning on a few Democrats that 11% approval ratings means trouble.
Here is a quote:
Impeachment is in the Constitution and should never, ever be off the table for any President. Congress needs to right the wrongs of this Administration, and I want to ensure every tool is available to hold individuals accountable for their actions.
GR3: who is your congressperson?
Impeachment…Anyone got Monica L.’s phonenumber? I got a little job for her…
Darlene Hooley: D - 5th District OR
WAPO says the leak investigation will move ahead..
Where’s Fitz at?
SETIgate begins /a>
This is from SourceWatch on SITE
Endorsed by Blackwater
Listed under “Security for the Professional”, sponsored by Blackwater Security Consultants, Blackwater USA cites SITE Institute as “An Invaluable Resource” in its May 9, 2005, Blackwater Tactical Weekly newsletter
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SITE_Institute
Cee,
Are you implying guilt by association? If so, SITE would be guilty of what?
The issue over the leak, isn’t whether or not SITE is reliable or who they work for…those are side issues for another time. The issue is who in the Bush administration leaked the video before al Qaeda released it, and thus destroyed a years-long investigation? Because the leak notified al Qaeda that their internet security had been breached. As a result, al Qaeda plugged those holes and they can’t be used again.
This is something the administration has a record of doing either through incompetence or for other reasons. Perhaps political calculations? Because the leak occurred at the same time Gen. Petraeus was speaking to Congress about progress [or lack of] in Iraq. And the first people the leakers leak to is Fox News, and they just happen to be a mouthpiece for the White House. What a coincidence, don’t you think?
If you’re interested, Keith Olbermann interviewed Evan Kohlmann last night about the impact the leak will have on intelligence. Kohlmann used to work for SITE and he now has his own private company called globalterroralert.com, which does similar work, and he also blogs for the Counterterrorismblog.org. One of the things Kohlmann points out is that whoever in the administration was in charge of distributing the video to law enforcement didn’t do their job, becaise Fox News had the video before FBI agents did.
I think SITE created this video to help Cheney&Co. continue to scare us to death.
Since it didn’t work now each side is blaming the other.
I’ll check to see what Kohlmann has to say.
Hate to disagree but the source is important. It makes a great difference if SITE is a professional intelligence organisation or basically an internet vigillante.
Either the whole US intelligence community is so incompetent that it can’t do what a few people in a basement in Washington with an internet connection does or the value of what SITE do is hardly what it claims. My take is the later.
Thanks for following up on this critical story.
Isn’t this the same administration that recently shut down the group headed by Scheuer that was investigating bin Laden?
There may be more to the Bush gang that mere idiocy. Perhaps they have associates among the Muslim Bros. needing protection.
It might be interesting to tabulate all the times that the Bush Thugs tipped off or assisted Al Qaeda.
E.g., “Operation Enduring Feeedom”
New Lede on SISMI false flag efforts vs. Iran
“Thursday, September 27, 2007
SISMI in Afghanistan
None of us have much sympathy for SISMI, the fascist branch of Italian military intelligence, but this statement by Mario D’Auria to Sky News is revealing. You see, his son, Lorenzo D’Auria (whom they say was an expert on Afghanistan), married with 3 kids, was send on a covert operation to monitor Afghanistan’s frontier with Iran and was promptly kidnapped -say accounts- by Mullah Khuda-e-Dad, who was going to turn them over to the Taliban. He was riddled with bullets in the rescue operation launched by British special forces and lies mortally wounded in an Italian military hospital.
“He and his partner were sent to make an incursion across the frontier, because the Italian clandestine services were charged with discovering whether weapons were coming through there to satisfy Bush, who’s an arms trader himself”
Moreover, Mario says that he cannot go the the hospital to see his son because after his statement to the press, SISMI would have him arrested.
So now the question. Does this not sound like that SISMI has been recruited to plant evidence of Iranian arms smuggling into Afghanistan?”
Labels: Afghanistan, Italy, Taliban
posted by Nur-al-Cubicle | 8:39 PM
Herat station chief could perhaps shed further light on such matters, interesting that Italy shares a border region of Herat alongside American posts at Farah.
It does sound like they were planting evidence. Keep us updated.
Why have we privatized our very security as a Nation?
ref. “The Bush Administration tossed around her name and the identity of her cover company–Brewster Jennings–as part of a deliberate strategy to discredit her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson”
Surely Bush Co. also wanted to kill the CIA’s WMD tracking, run mostly through the Brewster Jennings cover.
global security consultants…
Intriguing idea, but I don’t know if I believe you one hundred percent….