He was not impressed when moments later he got a prompt on his laptop to approve direct feed access for Director Shepard. Tony was really tempted to say no but knew that would cause him problems after this was over. So reluctantly, he approved it. Now the director had access to everything on the laptops before him, including the microphone and video. Meaning, she could listen in on anything said close to the laptops. A chance for her to micromanage the situation from afar.