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So I recognize the gentleman from California, Mr. Berman. BERMAN: Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Fine, Section 126 (a) of the Patriot Act requires that not jater than one year afler the date of enactment of this act, the attorney general shall subnut to Congress a report on any inittalive of the Department of Justice that uses or is intended lo develop pattern- based data mining technology. The one-year deadline expired March 9th of this year. To my knowledge, we haven't received this report. Can you give us an update on the progress of this report? FINE: From the attorney general? No, [ don't -- I can't give you progress. That's not my office. But { certainly can bring back that question to the department. BERMAN: But I thought... CAPRONI: Congressman, I, unfortunately, can tell you. Yes, it was not submitted on time. | think we sent a letter indicating that. It's still being worked on. I saw a draft going back across between us and DOJ. So it's being worked on. BERMAN: OK, well, then, let me ask you: As I understand the audit that the inspector general has undertaken, information from the national security letters is routinely added to the FBI's internal automated case system, which has about 34,000 authorized users, and then, is periodically downloaded into the investigative data warehouse, which has approximately 12,000 users. {s it possible that other agencies of the federal government or anywhere are using information in that investigative data warehouse for data mining purposes? CAPRONI: For data mining purposes -- I don't know the answer to that. ] mean, they could get access to it as appropriate for their agency. BERMAN: So it is possible. CAPRONI: I don't know the answer. I don't know. BERMAN: You don't know if it’s possible or you don't know if they are?