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welcome back, everyone. we are cover a hearing on capitol hill with adjourned alexandre and other security chiefs talking about the surveillance program that s been in the news the last week since one of the biggers national security leaks in history. the minute we get new information, we will go back to the hearing. look at the screen right now. there s already been big news out of the this hearing, plots that this operation helped uncover, they say. wiretaps, the phone records, the e-mails, listening into conversations between the u.s. and yore cease the four plots, we already knew about the plot
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that we re talking about here today. they re all valuable pieces to bring that mosaic together, and figure out how these individuals are plotting to attack the united states here or whether it s u.s. interests overseas. so every dot, as general alexandre mentioned, we here the cliche frequently about connecting the dots. el can tell you as a team, with the committee and with the american public, we come together to put all those dots together to form that picture, to allow us to interrupt these activities. all right. thank you. given the large number of questions by members, i m going to move along. i want to thank all the witnesses for your presentation, especially mr. cole. very good presentation, i think you explained the law in a very succinct way. you re listening to the hearing on capitol hill with general alexandre along with other key officials, outlining
administration say is completely informed on this. they do say, however, we understand why you might need to do this. so what they want the government to do is to lift the veil a bit on the process, how they make these decisions. i think you saw the deputy attorney general trying to do that today, trying to methodically outline how metadata does not mean listening into the kevin of your conversations, for example action and then try to outline exactly the process that they go through, not unlike a grand jury process, but then general alexandre says, well, there are sort of 50 cases we can only tell you about them actually general alexandre is speaking again right now. let s go back to the hearing right now. to flip a switch by some analyst to listen to americans phone calls or read their e-mails? no. the technology does not exist