Harman, the former ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, now CEO of the WoodrowWilsonCenter, and Matthew Miller, who served as director of public affairs for Attorney General Eric Holder at the Department of Justice until last year. Matthew Miller, is there anything unusual in that story that Sari just laid out for us about how this case and how this investigation unfolded? Is there anything about the way that played out which strikes you as unusual? MATTHEW MILLER, former Department of Justice official: I think everything about this case is unusual. There's not a lot of precedent to look at with a case like this. It really does seem to be an unprecedented case. But you look at the principles that the department follows when they conduct these types of investigations. And one of the principles that they follow is that they don't share information about ongoing criminal investigations with people outside law enforcement while those investigations are being conducted. And they do that for a couple of reasons. One, quite frankly, is to protect the reputation of people who may have committed no crime, but would see their reputations unfairly maligned. The second is to insulate their investigations from any political pressure. And so, particularly when it's a member of the administration being investigated, it's dangerous. If you brief other people in the administration, if you brief other people in Congress, you could potentially see those investigations politicized. GWEN IFILL: Jane Harman, how does that strike you? Is