my first guest was a special assistant to edwin meece in charge of reviewing applications.n those days, the fbi's counterintelligence office would bring an application to the designated special assistant with the appropriate security clearances for a last look and recommendation to the a.g. before they went in for his review, and approval and submission to the court. i reviewed hundreds and hundreds of these. this is before there was a national security division which added another layer of view to these very sensitive matters. i still don't talk about the specific warrant applications, their targets or the assets or information told us is why we wanted to keep an eye on this foreigner or rarely an american citizen, the standard is higher by the way for an american citizen, then in the old days a country we knew to be an enemy of the united states. but everything was very highly classified, sensitive, compartment aa compartmentalized information. i've been on the side of caution. would its disclosure do anything to compromise national security? that's been my first question

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