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Glenn SimpsonPage 238 2016/94, the Carter Page memo?

A. That's correct. We essentially segregated this reporting from other things we were doing for reasons we discussed earlier. A lot of this is human intelligence, it's not the kind of thing that you would share with almost anyone basically. A lot of the work that we do is public record research. Generally speaking, most of this information is useful for making decisions and trying to understand what's going on, but it's not — doesn't have much use beyond that unless you can independently verify it. So our reports are full of footnotes and appendices and court records and that sort of thing.

Q. So is it fair to characterize the research that you were doing as kind of a separate track of research on the same topic sometimes?

A. I think so. I wouldn't say it was completely separate because, for instance, on some subjects I knew more than Chris. So when it comes to Paul Manafort, he's a long-time U.S. political figure about whom I know a lot. But his reporting — you know, so there may have been some bleed between things I told him about someone like Manafort, but most of these characters neither of 1-800-FOR-DEPO