but just allow me briefly to state what happened. nasa identified and researched a compliance issue. nasa -- excuse me, nsa reported that issue to doj, odni and ultimately the fisa court. the court delayed its consideration of the 2016 certifications on that basis until the government was able to correct the issue. nsa determined that a possible solution to the compliance problem was to stop conducting one -- >> we have been listening here to the director of national intelligence, dan coats talking all about fisa because that is what this hearing is ostensibly all about, the reauthorization of the foreign intelligence surveillance act. that said, there is most certainly a subplot to all of this, given what broke overnight, the news that, according to the "washington post" dan coats was asked by the