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GOHMERT: OK. just wanted to wade through and get to the answer. Thank you. Now, with regard to these letters, itis deeply troubling, because we've been hearing about how important they were in order to get this information, but, you know, we had assurances from everybody, from the A.G. on down, that there was adequate oversight, that there was adequate training. What suggestions -- since you're not changing any personnel policies, what actual, structural policies within the FBI are going to change to make sure that there would be adequate oversight, just in case the NSLs were allowed in the future? CAPRONI: Again, we're going to do substantially more tramimg. Agents are now being placed into career paths and they're going to be required, after their time at Quantico, to return to Quantico for, sort of, a post-graduate period. That will have extensive training for those agents who are on the national security career track. We're also implementing an auditing practice that will include Department of Justice lawyers, inspectors in the FBI and FBI lawyers to go out and methodically audit the use of the nationa! security letters. More generally, we are going to create a compliance program within the bureau that ‘will be interdisciplinary and it will make sure that not just with national security letters -- I mean, this 1s one tool, and it's a tool that, as indicated in this report, we need better controls on. Our concern is that there may be other things that we need to make sure that we've got better controls on; that we think we've given perfectly clear guidance but, in terms of execution in the field, we've got some problems. So again, I can't say enough that we take this report extremely seriously. We know we've got issues. We know we've got problems. The director and upper management is absolutely committed that we're going to fix this. CONYERS: Time has expired. GOHMERT: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. CONYERS: Mr. Artur Davis from Alabama is recognized. DAVIS: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ms. Caproni, give me your best legal assessment: Will the exclusionary rule apply to any evidence obtained from the improper issuance of these letters?