That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

guarded by a couple of CIA agents and some Treasury Department guys.

It's up to the Treasury Department to take the report, review it carefully, understand the implications and use the report as a starting place for recommendations that we will make to the president,

The Treasury Department will continue to take action as necessary to protect against threats to our financial system and our institutions.

So here comes the allegorical artwork via Van Dyke's metaphorical lyrics,

[Nichols said the authors wrote the report after they left the Treasury Department last August.] This paper was not prepared at Treasury, by Treasury, or at the request of anyone at Treasury, ... It was prepared after the individuals in question went back to the private sector.