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National Security Letters — Part 1
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JOHNSON:
Will it take a subpoena for us to get that information?
CAPRONI:
1 don't believe so. I don't know what's in the context...
JOHNSON:
Will you provide it...
CAPRONTI:
I don't know if there are any sensitive issues...
JOHNSON:
Will you provide it to my office?
CAPRONI:
Again, we'll respond to questions for the record as they come in.
JOHNSON:
All right.
Why is it that, ifthe NSLs are the FBI's bread-and-butter investigative technique, could
the inspector general only identify one terrorism prosecution out of 143,074 people
whose letters were -- or who investigatory information was obtained on?
CAPRONI:
Again. Mr. Fine can explain his methodology.
But 1 think the issue, and the difficultly of that question is that because there was no
congressional -- we were not legally obligated to tag the data, so tracing it through is
difficult.
JOHNSON:
So one out of 143,000 -- how does that equate into being the bread-and-butter
investigative technique for uncovering terrorism by the FBI?
CAPRONI:
Again, we disagree that in only one case did NSL data contribute to a criminal
prosecution.
JOHNSON:
But would you say more than 10 or less than 10?
CAPRONI:
I don't know. It is my belief that virtuaily every...
JOHNSON:
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