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The FBI is acutely aware that the only way we can achieve our mission of keeping the country safe is tf we are trusted by all segments of the American public. With events Jike the London terror attack of two years ago, we were all worried about the risk of a catastrophic attack from homegrown terrorists. Our single best defense against such an attack is the eyes and cars of ath Americans, but particularly im those segments of the population in which the risk of radicalization is at its highest. We need people in those communities to call us when they hear or see something that looks a mess. We know that we reduce the probability of that call immeasurably if we lose the confidence of any part of the American public. CONYERS: Counsel, can you wind down at this point? CAPRONI: Yes, sir, CONYERS: All right. CAPRONI: We will put into place a compliance program to maximize the probability that we do not lose the confidence of the American public by dint of the sort of errors highlighted in this report. I appreciate the opportunity 10 appear before the committee and fook forward to answering your questions. Thank you. CONYERS: Well, General Counsel Caproni, I want to thank you for your candor and forthcomingness in coming before us today. And we will include the rest of your testimony, of course. CON YERS: Now, fet me begin the questioning. And I thank both the witnesses. Mr. Inspector General Fine, I'm curious as to how you've come to the conclusion that these errors that have been reported and that bring us to this chamber were either sloppy - - the results of sloppy book-keeping, recordkeeping or compliance with the law, but none of it was intentional. How could that be if they've known about these excesses since the year 2004, their communications analysts unit warned them about it in early 2005, and we have something like at least over 700 exigent letters and somewhere in the neighborhood of 40,000 to 50,000 NSL letters for three years? FINE: Let me separate some of those issues.