It used to be the case back when people just wrote did letters in longhand and put stamps on them that there was something i think called the mail match which would let the government tell the post office, if you see anything coming to, going from, we want to keep track of address theyre also reading the message, and people got very scared and worried about that. Could you help clear up whats going on . Theres so much said to be about that. The public got stampeded into what i calm the darkest corner of the room after that story came out. Ive done a lot of that on how, some of the press covered it. Frankly we should ems brace a little bit of that responsibility ourselves in the i. E. We probably could have been more forth come closing snowden telling our story in explaining what it was that we were doing. But to look at the essential element that you described, metadata is the outside of the envelope for electronic communication. American Law Enforcement traditionally has been able to