today we have cindy kahn to walk through the results of the audit. each of you should have a copy of the powerpoint presentation in front of you. >> thank you. >> good morning. thank you for inviting me to discuss the results of the authority's 2012 financial and federal compliance audits. i will go through the audit responsibilities in the scope of the work and discuss key elements of the two deliverable reports. the first report of the financial statement and the single audit report. this report is going to be disseminated and uploaded to the federal data clearinghouse upon approval and acceptance of the report. in the second report is a letter to the finance committee. the purpose of the financial statement audit is to obtain reasonable assurance that the amounts and related disclosures are fairly stated. the applicable framework we are following clearly accepted accounting principles or gap; generally accepted auditing principles in government audit standards promulgated by the us government accountability office. as discussed on page 26 of your

government spying program so to talk more about pfizer and where the case stands today i'm joined now by cindy kahn legal director and general counsel at the electronic frontier foundation cindy thanks so much for coming on thank you so when the patriot act was signed it was so controversial because it gave the government such wide sweeping powers what more powers did. give the government the patriot act it in well the amendments act in two thousand and eight expanded fi's a couple of ways the first thing it did was it allowed the government to get kind of general warrants not have to particularly identify people that it was surveying but it could just say like it's going to surveil members of the rotary club or or the name of a group. shift because the fourth amendment really requires specificity of persons group general warrants the second thing was is. eliminated the face of court's ability to really know what the government is doing as a practical matter and how it's implementing these broad new powers. by taking its review of the level of abstraction to just reviewing procedures rather than wh