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CONYERS: ] thank the gentleman. The chair recognizes Stefan Cohen, the gentleman from Memphis, Tennessee. COHEN: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Stephen, yes, that's all right. (LAUGHTER) But you can call me "Stefan." (LAUGHTER) CONYERS: Stephen. COHEN: Thank you, sir. Mr. Fine, did you do any study of the people whose records were looked at illegally for any similarity in demographics? FINE: No. We looked at whether they were U.S. persons or non- US. persons. But, within those categories, we did not look at the demographics of those individuals. COHEN: Ms. Caproni said they were all within investigations that were ongoing. Did you find that to be true also? FINE: We could not verify that they were all connected to an ongoing investigation. 1 know the FBI is trying to do that now. But as part of our audit, we could not do all of that. COHEN: Do you think it might be a good idea to look at those people, so see rf there are any demographic consistencies, if there's a group of the American public that might be looked al ina closer manner than others and that that might... FINE: It's possible. That would be quite an undertaking. And one also has to realize a lot of these are not on individuals. They're on telephone numbers and things like that. There are certainly consumer credit reports and other things that do relate to individuals. So that kind of a review is possible, but it would be incredibly intensive and require additional resources while we're trying to comply with this committee's and the Congress’