◆ SpookStack

exposed was the extensiveness of the co-intel problem of Dr. Martin Luther King; wrongheadedness, as far as I'm concerned, as if relates to the utilization of protecting this country. A civil rights leader who happened to be outspoken against the hernous governmental acts of segregation and all of a sudden he became a major target of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with any number of officers -- agents, if you will -- probing and looking over paperwork that he might have generated. That smacks, as far as I'm concerned, of where we are today even though, Mr. Inspector General, you've indicated that it has been without malice, without inienttons. And we all know that there is a phrase that says: A journey to a certain place is paved on that road with good intentions. So I'm not very happy as to where we are today because | argued vigorously about the extensive powers that we were giving to the president of the United States out of fear. And one thing that the Constitution reminds us, and certainly in the founding fathers, who left a tyrannical society to be free, that tyranny can get the best of us. And lack of contro] can get the best of us. So | ask to the general counsel of the FBI: Did you determine what percentages of those letters that were sent without national security letters generated into terrorists responses or terrorist incidences or terrorist prosecutions? I'd be interested in that nuinber. And why don't you just answer that, yes or no, you have the percentage? CAPRONI: I do not. JACKSON-LEE: OK. I'd like to get the percentage, frankly. CAPRONI: The directorate ordered a special investigation of the whole exigent letter instance, and we will brief this committee when we have the results of that. JACKSON-LEE: And I wil! join my colleague on the other side of the aisle. How quickly can you get that information? ‘This is about protecting the Constitution and securing the homeland, two very important jurisdictional responsibilities. And I happen to serve on both committees, Homeland Securtty and this. So my question is, how soon can you get those numbers? It makes a real difference to know whether you generated potential terrorist threats that would secure the homeland or whether or not the FBI was on a fishing expedition. CAPRONI: Congresswoman, let me assure you that that group was not ona fishing expedition.