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And earlier in your Lestimony, ma‘am, you slaled that the phone companies were responsible for a lot of the errors that are cited in the compliance with the national security letters. CAPRONI: We do see third-party errors, correct. JOHNSON: You saw a substantial number. And so you are placing upon the phone company the obligation to properly document whether or not there has been a follow-up with an exigent letter. CAPRONI: Ob, no, sir. There are two separate things. 1 do not excuse our lack of recordkeeping in connection with the exigent letters. They did keep the records, which was fortunate. JOHNSON: And it's important to note, Mr. Fine, that your analysts of the FBI's compliance with the Patriot Act found that there were woefully inadequate mechanisins for the collection of data on these national security letters. JOHNSON: In other words, the recordkeeping by the FBI was woefully inadequate as far as the issuance and follow-up on these national security letters and also the exigent letters, isn't that correct? FINE: We did find serious and widespread misuse and madequate recordkeeping, absolutely. JOHNSON: And do you have any idea, Mr. Fine, how much the telecommunications companies were paid for their so-called contract with the government? FINE: I don't know it, no. JOHNSON: All right. Which agency -- can you, Ms. Caproni, provide my office with that information, along with copies of the contracts between the CAU and the phone companies? CAPRONI: I have great confidence that we're going to get a number of questions for the record after this, and I'm assuming that will be one of them and we will respond appropriately.