As an example, say you're the president of the United States. Your vice president is looking for two droids, and the secret service tugs some car into the driveway of the white house and they inform you the license plate match that of a car that shot it's way out of "Elm Street".

Or, your VP looks for the droids, doesn't find them, comes back, quite probably (albeit offscreen) fills you and your senior staff (of whom the guy on the speaker is quite possibly a member) in on the details, including the fact that he sent a detachment of troops into said Elm Street to look for the droids.