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Mr. Chairman, if 1 may, } would like to submit for the record the March 91h press release submitted by the attorney general. CONYERS: Without objection, so ordered. COBLE: And [ thank the chairman, and I yield back my time. CONYERS: The other gentleman from... PROTESTER: (OFF-MIKE) not any of these FB] (OFF-MIKE) CONYERS: 1 ask the lady to -- no, don't sit down now. Fask you to please excuse yourself from this hearing. No visitors can interrupt a hearing in the Congress. PROTESTER: (OFF-MIKE) CONYERS: Just a moment. Would the officers escort this lady out please? The chair recognizes the other distinguished member from North Carolina, Mr. Mel Watt. WATT: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And [ thank the chairman for convening the hearing. Mr. Fine, I'm looking on page seven of your testimony in which you indicate that you reviewed 293 national security letters in 77 files and found 22 possible violations that had not been identified or reported by the FBI. WATT: And I'm trying to extrapolate that, although Ms. Caproni seemed to take some issue with whether that was a reliable sample. I'm trying to assume for the moment that it is, without trying to figure out how many there would be of the total nationai security letters that were possible violations. My formula is I'm starting with 143,000 national security letter requests, on page five. Would that be an appropriate place to start? Or have you done the extrapolation for me? FINE: