si gab bard on. she says the intelligence community should be more specific and less about looking at everybody. do you agree with that? they re not looking at everybody. they have the data. they search it for the phones. then they see, if, for example, after the boston marathon bombing you were talking about a national plot or a couple of guys if boston. i think that s important information to have. it s important also chris, there is so much talk about this everything is sort of balled up together. you get the feeling that the nsa is listening to people s phone conversations. all we re talking about here is phone numbers, what number called what other number to see whether you got a conspiracy going on or whether you are dealing with the lone wolf. i think leaving it with the data companies is a good step. i have been uncomfortable with the government holding it. i believe we have some requirement that the phone companies let us know if they will reduce the retention