conduct of a terrorist investigation, but because of a typo in the law, the fbi has not been allowed access to internet metadata in national security cases, to the extent that is necessary. can you talk to us about the importance of that particular fix, the electronic communications transactional records fix? >> thank you so much, senator. this seems like a boring deal. this makes a big impact on our work. here's why. in our counterterrorism cases and our counterintelligence cases, we can issue with all kinds of layer of approval in the fbi, a national security letter to find out the subscriber to a particular telephone number and find out what numbers that telephone number was in contact with. not the content of the communications, but just the connection. again, because of what i believe is a typo in the law, and if i'm wrong, congress will tell me they intended this, the companies that provide the same services but on the internet