In other words, now that we are being watched we have to stop stealing from the state.
now that we are being watched we have to stop stealing from the state [our lifeblood] and they [the rules] haven't been changed by us.
yuppers.
Who do you think that was publicly being addressed to? It is almost like he was telling someone we have a problem here and it isn't our fault.
Obviously if this was a conversation amongst themselves, they wouldn't have had to make a public statement like that.