authorized surveillance. words matter. it s not spying. may i add one thing to what frank and julia said, because i think julia s idea of zooming out a bit is important. here is one other way to think about it. we have 17 agencies within the u.s. intelligence community, some quite large. frank mentioned them. dia, c. i. opinion nsa, fbi. some quite small all very good. when we declassify something and by the way the fbi is the one most likely to declassify it because i want to use it publicly in a criminal case. we run the declassification case through the entire intelligence community. we have the dni to oversee it so we only declassify things that are properly declassified. we never want to give in trort authority uni laterally to a attorney general. even if it was a really good attorney general and roint i fear we don t have that. the process matters. process sounds like a boring word but it really truly
about it. we have 17 agencies within the u.s. intelligence community, some quite large. frank mentioned them. dia, c. i. opinion nsa, fbi. some quite small all very good. when we declassify something and by the way the fbi is the one most likely to declassify it because i want to use it publicly in a criminal case. we run the declassification case through the entire intelligence community. we have the dni to oversee it so we only declassify things that are properly declassified. we never want to give in trort authority uni laterally to a attorney general. even if it was a really good attorney general and roint i fear we don t have that. the process matters. process sounds like a boring word but it really truly matters. and we need to have agreement within our intelligence community before we declassify stuff. there is a danger to subverting the process chuck, i have two more elements for you.