person has ever come up to me and said, i have to work tonight or the weekend. they always come in. they protect our troops, and they protect this country. they ve taken an oath to defend the nation and to protect our civil liberties and privacy. and they do that better than anyone i have ever seen. it is a privilege and honor to work next to them every day. what i want to tell you about is how did we get here, talk about the business record fisa, and i want to give you insights to what we see going on worldwide. i want to talk about the compliance and how we protect these programs and where we need to go in the future. and then, chairman, we ll address some of the questions i know you want to ask. so i ll drop that until your question portion. first, how did we get here? how did we end up here? 9/11. 2,996 people were killed in 9/11. we all distinctly remember that.
prophet muhammad. in fact, headley later confessed to personally conducting surveillance of the newspaper office. he and his co-conspirators were convicted of this plot. lastly, the fbi had opened an investigation shortly after 9/11. we did not have enough information nor did we find links to terrorism, so we shortly thereafter closed the investigation. however, the nsa using the business record fisa tipped us off that this individual had indirect contacts with a known terrorist overseas. we were able to reopen this investigation, identify additional individuals through legal process, and were able to disrupt this terrorist activity. that was sean joyce, the deputy director of the fbi. president obama also continues to strongly defend the nsa surveillance program. he did it in a new interview.
investigation shortly after 9/11 we did not have enough information nor did we find links to terrorism, so we shortly thereafter closed the investigation. however, the nsa, using the business record fisa tipped us off that this individual had indirect contacts with a known terrorist overseas. we were able to reopen this investigation, identify additional individuals through legal process, and were able to disrupt terrorist activity. thank you. back to you, general. so that s four cases total that we put out publicly. what we are in the process of doing with the interagency is looking at over 50 cases that are classified and will remain classified that will be brought to both of intel committees of the senate and the house, to all of you. those 50 cases right now have been looked at by the fbi, cia and other partners within the
investigation shortly after 9/11. we did not have enough information, nor did we fine links to terrorism, so we shortly thereafter closed the investigation. however, the nsa using the business record fisa tipped us off that this individual had indirect contacts with a known terrorist overseas. we were able to reopen this investigation, identify additional individuals through the legal process and were able to disrupt this terrorist activity. thank you. back to you, general. so that s four cases total that we ve put out publicly. um, what we re in the process of doing with the interagency is looking at over 50 cases that are classified and will remain classified that will be brought to both the intel committees of the senate and the house, to all of you. those 50 cases right now have been looked at by the fbi, cia and other partners within the community and the national counterterror arism center is
lastly, the fbi opened an investigation shortly after t 9/11. we did not find links to terrorism so we closed the investigation. however, the nsa using the business record fisa tipped us off that this individual had indirect contacts with a known terrorist overseas. we were able to reopen this investigation, identify additional individuals through the legal process, and were able to disrupt this terrorist activity. thank you. back to you, general. so that s four cases total. that we put out publicly. what we are in the process of doing with the inner agency is looking at over 50 cases classified and will remain classified, and brought to both intel committees of the senate and house, to all of you. those 50 cases right now have