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National Security Letters — Part 1

1188 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Dec 4, 1981 · Broad topic: General · Topic: National Security Letters · 1018 pages OCR'd
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That's seven of the 22 files, where you say they were real serious violations, Extrapolate that out for me, Mr. Fine. CAPRONI. That -- | pereent... FINE: Well, I think, in Ms. Caproni's testimony, she talked about how -- the level of seriousness and which were FBI errors and which were company errors, and came up with the figure that about 1, a little bit over 1 percent of them were serious violations involving FBI errors. Hf you extrapolate that to the entire population, that would be about 600 cases of serious FBI misconduct. WATT: Ms. Caproni, is there some reason that this committee and the American public shouldn't be concemmed about law enforcement violating the law... CAPRONI: Again, we are... WATT: ... 600 times? CAPRONI: We are quite concerned about this, Congressman. And we are making every effort to figure out where those errors are, to sequester the material to pull it out of our files, and to destroy it. We will also take appropriate action... WATT: How many files have you all destroyed, based on this investigation, up to this point? CAPRONI: When we identified data that we have... WATT: Isn't that a number, rather than an explanation? CAPRONI: Congressman, I don't know the number, | know that, when we identified data, we have... WATT: Has the FBI destroyed any files, up to this point, based on this investigation?
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