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JOHN CONYERS, JA, Michigan LAMAR S SMITH. Texas CHAIRMAN RANKING MINORITY MEMGER G.S. Bouse of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary BAashington, WHE 20515-6216 One Hundred Benth Congress March 20, 2007 Ms. Valerie Caproni General Counsel ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED Federal Bureau of Investigation HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW TATE 06-09-2007 BY 65179 DHH/KSR/IU Washington, DC 20535 Dear Ms. Caproni: As part of our oversight regarding the Inspector General’s Review of the F.B.1.’s Use of National Security Letters, please provide us with the following information (by close of business on April 4 if possible): 1) copies of all e-mails, memoranda, and other documents that relate to the F-B.I.’s use of | “exigent letters," as well as transcripts of your interviews conducted on the issue. 2) please identify all of the F.B.1. personnel who participated in the creation and issuance of the “exigent letters.” 3) copies of all documents, including internal memoranda, pertaining to the F.B.1.’s Communications Analysis Unit's contracts with the three telephone companies identified in the inspector General’s Report, and identify all F.B.I. attorneys who participated in the revicw and approval of those contracts. 4) copies of all documents pertaining to the information that the F.B.I. acquired through the use of National Security Letters (NSLs) pertaining to individuals who the F.B.1. concluded were irrelevant to terrorism investigattons. 5} copies of all documents pertaining to the F.B.I's standards regarding the maintenance of the Office of General Counsel’s National Security Letter database. 6) please detail the internal F.B.I. standards for the reporting of possible Intelligence Oversight Board violations, and provide any documents related thereto. 7) please identify F.B.E standards pertaining to the review of investigative files to ensure that supervisory review of National Security Letter approval memoranda has occurred, and that the relevant authorizing statutes are in the NSLs.