James Clapper actually said...

Well, I would hope it'd be the ladder, although I don't have -- you know, based on the history thus far, I'm not real confident in that.

I guess if it came to a dispute between the two and I think I could predict how it would be resolved.

The bigger issue, of course, is potential -- as you alluded, potential compromise of some very sensitive sources and methods.

the narrative obviously is spying on the campaign. No, it was trying to understand what the Russians were doing.