specific intelligence requirements from our national command authority, and they are laid out to the intelligence community and then the intelligence community goes forward and lays out a collection plan the best way to get that very needed information. occasionally, fareed, occasionally, what you have is political guidance kind of being placed on top of your operational planning. i had political guidance while i was director of nsa. i had targets. i had legitimate needs, but i was told frankly back off, that target s too sensitive. i don t want you doing that at this time for this purpose. does that mean that somebody in the white house very high up would have had to say in 2002, so this is the george w. bush white house, somebody would have had to say, it is okay to spy on the chancellor of germany, that the nsa would not have done that without such authorization? no. and i don t want to talk about anything specific, fareed.
the question how much oil is coming out of that well? right now test mats are based for the most part on that video feed that we re used to seeing, and the estimates are about 20,000 to 40,000 barrels a day. and bp is also working on their containment of oil. right now they have that cap on right now that s getting about 15,000 barrels, it s been able to collect about 127,000 barrels since it was first put into place at the beginning of june, but the obama administration gave bp an 48 hour deadline to improve that collection plan and bp is trying to do tat. they unveiled a plan that will allow them to increase the amount that s being captured to 50,000 a day by the end of the june, some 60,000 to 80,000 by mid-july. but until that point, oil continues to gush into the waters of the gulf here and many say they re watching a way of life slip away.