It’s possible that Nunes’s silence indicates that the Justice Department briefing laid out a compelling case for why the FBI was justified in surveilling the Trump campaign—given that he’s spent a year muttering ominously about partisan pettifoggery at the DOJ, it’s hard to imagine Nunes sprinting to the nearest microphone to call off the dogs. Then again, it’s equally possible that even in the Thursday briefing, the Justice Department did not open their books to Nunes’ satisfaction: President Trump on Wednesday declined to say whether he had actually ordered DOJ to release all the documents the House Intelligence Committee had subpoenaed. “I want them all to get together and I want them—because everybody wants this solved,” Trump said then. “I want them all to get together. They’ll sit in a room. Hopefully they’ll be able to work it out among themselves.”

One other possibility: Nunes might have elected not to put much emphasis on this particular meeting given the way the White House rolled it out, mixing up the list of invited lawmakers over the day leading up to the briefing after Democrats howled about the impropriety of holding private briefings for a single party. (The Justice Department ultimately held two consecutive classified meetings: One for Nunes and fellow Intel Republican Trey Gowdy, and one for the so-called “Gang of Eight,” the bipartisan group of congressional leaders who are regularly briefed on classified intelligence matters.)