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CONYERS: The gentleman's time has expired. CAPRONI: The inspectors are in the field now, and I think that they will have completed their inspection visit, which is a sampling process, but that we anticipate that they'll have completed it within a week or so, WATT: You've got a more reliable sampling process than Mr. Fine... CAPRONI: - No, it's just bigger. It's bigger and it's across all field offices. WATT: Thank you. CONYERS: The gentleman from California wants an attorney general for his state. (LAUGHTER) Dan Lungren? LUNGREN: Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Ms. Caproni, I was one of the ones who have defended the FBI and the Justice Department in the use of these as we went through legislation the last two years. And to say that I'm disappointed doesn't give justice to what | feel about this. Mr. Fine has said that this is the result of mistakes, carelessness, confusion, sloppiness, lack of training, lack of adequate guidance, and lack of adequate oversight. Thal sounds like a report about a first or second grade class. We're talking about agents of the FBI who are lawyers in many cases, who have college degrees, who have other kinds of education. We're talking about people who have gone through the FB! Academy. We're talking about people who presumably have been trained to go jnto this. We are how many years past 9/11? And im response to the question, I believe it was of Mr. -- well, I'm not sure who asked you this, but whether you could get this done in four months, you said you hoped so. I hope you'll deliver a message thal we expect it will be done. I mean, because I don't think if you can't get it done tn four months you're going to have to worry about improving your procedures for NSLs, because you probably won't have NSL authority. I just -- [ just want to convey to you how upset many of are who have defended this program and have believe it 1s necessary to the protection of our country. And you, the FBI, have an obligation, yes, to try and find out who the potential terrorists are, but also to make good on the promise we made to the people of America that the terrorists are not going to succeed by indirection what they can't do by direction, that is destroy the Constitution.