on information broker security. we put together a whole list of things that these companies must do in the event there's a breach. that is something that the state of california has already done. and they are to be commended. the bill that i have is patterned a little bit after california, but if you have 50 states with 50 different laws it's going to be difficult for the security companies to comply adequately. so we're putting in a federal standard which we think will be stronger than the states and we'll have protection for the sensitive information. >> isn't it true that corporations have made advances for the private sector in collecting information than does the u.s. government? aren't state gofertz the u.s. government -- the u.s. government requires a warrant for some kinds of information, does it not, whereas, what it does to evade that, we hear, for example, the pentagon which has an enormous snoop potential -- i don't mean to use that word in a bad sense, but let's say monitoring potential, and all college

other piece of information, information you want to capture about the applicant. it knows who i am, so i can teton -- just use auto felfill,o it will fill in that information. we are trying to make this as quick and easy as possible to regard we have got that done. the next property is going to consist of getting a dress and parcel information, but we want is we do not want them to enter information that may be incorrect, so we want to have them search the tracking system to make sure the address and personal information is correct, so the tracking system is going to have all of this information, so that will be like the golden master. i can put in parcel information. i will put in this because i know that will get me something, and i searched, and it will look through and find matches to regard it will list what those are -- and fine matches. it will is what those are. there are a few matches, and this is the one i wanted. it will populates those fields with the accurate parcel and address information. i scrolled up, so you see a lot of fields that are not being

first, there has to be information sharing. second, there has to be liability protection and liability-based incentives to drive information sharing. third, and i think probably the controversial piece, or the most controversial, there does have to be some standard setting and prirmt of meeting those standards for critical inf infrastructu infrastructure. let me tell you briefly which these are three fundamental pillars. first, the way you learn about problems in cyberspace is by getting experience in what those problems are. if everybody fights alone, everybody is at their weakest. when you're dealing with network threats, the ability to observe them, analyze them, and disseminate the information is critical to avoiding replication of the threat elsewhere. basically the more you see and the more you know, the better you are in defending yourself. that's why if we are isolated in our response to threats, if we stovepipe ourselves, we are simply giving the adversary the ability to repeat the same technique over and over again in

bringing together a whole pot of information we won't normally have that includes government information. those sophisticated members can money ties that and build that back into their products and wases and upon the the information they wouldn't normally having. we've done away one of the main legal barriers for information sharing and put in liability protections and limitations as possible. shielding it from foya and state and local disclosure. but making sure that the idea of this niso is to share information. beyond that you lose -- if a member fails to use the information appropriately, there are provisions in the law that make sure that is taken care of against a malicious actor, that sort of thing. what we're trying to do is create a structure around information sharing, one, to provide appropriate oversight and these are sensitive issues we deal with. we want to make sure that the appropriate information is getting to the appropriate people at the right span of time. putting a structure around it enables appropriate oversight, and it also gives people a one-stop shop. they can -

a consumer's consent today to allow perpetual access to their viewing history is clearly not informed by who will be their friend tomorrow. today when online bullying of teen and young adults can lead to depression or even suicide, and online predators can learn otherwise confidential private information about their prey, i believe the selective and piecemeal amendment of the video privacy protection act is -- was irresponsible. is irresponsible. as one commentator has written, movie and rating data contains information of a more highly personal and sensitive nature. the member's movie data exposes a member's personal interest and/or struggles with various highly personal issues, including sexuality, mental illness, recovery from alcoholism and victimization from incest, physical abuse, domestic violence, adultery and rape. justice marshall wrote years ago that privacy is not a discreet commodity, possessed absolutely or not at all. the objective is to strike an appropriate balance between meaningful protections for consumers and promoting a healthy online economy. i do not believe th

on google you can customize the information you give google to a large degree. that's another important thing we need to learn about google. if you customize the way google tracks you can limit the amount of information and kinds they follow about you, you degrade the service google gives you an estimate of obvious trade-off once you click on those things. you start seeing google no longer helps you shop is so but it might help you learn a little batter is as google becomes better for shopping numbers for learning, databases are really important question for us as citizens. i happen to think there's more to life and shopping. but not today, please shot. shop shy here and a lot. after you get out of get out of. i'm off to shop so much. when you think about the extent to which we depend on this medium of the world wide web to learn about the world, maybe we need to imagine differences. maybe we need to invest more in systems like public libraries and university libraries and their outrageous to other communities. maybe we have to imagine we could build a system th

this bill is simple, do you want more information or less information? this is remarkable common sense. i would suggest, mr. chairman, that it ought to be common ground upon which this house can stand. i urge my colleagues to adopt this piece of legislation and i yield back. the chair: all time for general debate has expired. purn to the rule, the bill shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. in lieu of the amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in the bill rs, it shall be in order to consider orange bill for purpose of amendment an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of the rules committee print 112-10, dated january 25, 2012. that amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be considered read. no amendment to that amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be in order except those printed in part b of house report 112-383. each such amendment may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a member designated in the report, shall be considered as read. shall be

information is. into a database track. what people buy and what this will end up saying about them so they would look at patterns and in the extreme case they could they ended up figuring out. if women were pregnant and they could do this by tracking well whether a couple of examples they used were lotion that they were buy or vitamins that they were buying and in one case target even knew a girl was pregnant before her father did and they were sending her advertisements for pregnancy materials and her dad called up and could play that shit and they said well why were you trying to get my daughter pregnant and it turned out that she called back a few years later and said i apologize because she was due in august so this information is very valuable to companies because they can then use it to sell products quicker and we can see the same thing happen happening online where websites install cookies on your computer then trash or weapon havior and then they can tailor further tailor ads to you to try t

colleagues, this is an information and possible action item. could we have a motion directing staff to pursue this item. commissioner avalos: i would like to make the motion that staff pursue some analysis of rank choice voting, here, locally in san francisco. what are the trends? what do we have in terms of services for public education? a measure of how successful that has been. if possible, looking at trends elsewhere around the country and -- i do not know if we want to look elsewhere globally, but i think the country is useful. also, something else to add, perhaps, if there is controversy around financing of rank choice voting in other places, we could elucidate what that might look like as well. it might be different in other places. i think it is with developing a broader perspective of it as well. how does that sound? commissioner campos: great. commissioner pimentel: i would like to second the motion. commissioner campos: we have a second. i assume there is clarity in terms of what we are asking. if we could take that motion without ob

, our information systems. we looked at this issue several years ago and we found federal agencies were wasting millions of dollars on reports that nobody read. the bill before state includes many improvements to the federal informations, security information act. we hope that will ensure that our federal agencies are actively monitoring and response and not just writing reports about them. the agencies have taken many steps to improve the security networks largely because of the action you have taken in your department to make this more affected despite the outdated statute. god bless you. i commend you for being proactive in this area. here is the question -- that was a long windup -- can you describe some of the current limitations offisma and why this legislation and some new tools to give you might be needed >>? one of the key things that this bill would do is to clarify and centralize where the authorities lie within the government and have those relate to fisma among other things so it really sets the co

and of course had these information. so within a very short period of time, the web becomes a trustworthy place and lo and behold this in combination with the widespread use of encryption for instance, you get people shopping and actually banking on the bed. the more time people spend on the web, the ultimately it is for google because it's a starting point. instead of following links, go back to the central place and it gives you a menu of places to dive into. so you are no longer actually using it in a web way. your plumbing for death when he do a subject search on google. so that's a nice story. the group was 12 years old. its voice is just tremendous change. by 2004 when google is nearly six, he started remarkably expanding its areas of interest. about that time i started really taking up because i use google for 99, the time i first heard from very tech savvy friends that this is a search engine to trust. around 2004, google started launching a number of other projects and there are familiar with what those projects

we also need to is a bullet -- submit updated information plant. we have one that is already certified. we need an updated one that has been certified with the firm that we have been negotiating with in 2010 as our supplier. obviously, that is not correct. pretty pro forma. i expect that to get approved pretty quickly once we submit that. we're also doing the final word on finalizing the contract with noble americas, some back office services, that we require. the term sheet has been made public. the deal points have already been arranged, and it is the hard work of putting that into a contract language. the other item that i have is a big one, which is the cpuc update, where things stand. we're waiting to hear on what will be the method for calculating the bond amount for any cca, legislation that allows cca stipulates that all cca's must post a bond designed to cover the anticipated costs of, should a cca terminate abruptly, with the ink from a da costa that might be to the utility. cpuc has been charged with determining the method for calculatin

it's to put choices and decisions in the hands of informed consumers. with the advent of video streaming and social sharing, the video privacy protection act stands in the way of viewers exercising control and limits free expression. the vppa was designed to prevent prying into people's rental history. it was not to dictate how they share. indeed, the multiple purpose was to give control and choice to consumers, to let the consumers decide whether and how to share the video watching information. in 1988 when the vppa was enacted, no one dreamed of streaming video and social sharing. so when that preinternet law is applied to the world of online video and social media, it could be read to frustrate and authorize the disclosure on an ongoing basis. for many people automatic sharing and social media is how they shape their online indemnities and how they share ideas. facebook users commonly utilize a one-time authorization, a durable sharing option, to share a wide range of information with their friends. when it comes to sharing their online video experie

disclosing or how their information is being handled. so at the high level i think we are all coming to it from the same approach. there's a philosophical difference in some way you highlighted, is it opt in, opt out or -- how does congress control the way in which consumers can share, or are available to share? the presumption we're trying to advocate for in connection with supporting hr 2471 is that it's really within the consumer's control toll elect to do that if they so desire. it's an opt in mechanism and one they should be able to get informed consent. there's a question on this panel whether or not consumers can ever give informed consent. on our side we would take the position, yes, consumers can give informed consent, and in fact under the legislation, there is specific opt out so that the not buried in some terms of use, which we're are in support of. so the issue about -- >> privacy is so important and if everybody at the table supports that, what's the-what's wrong with having a reminder you're sharing your privs ji if it's

we've got two different types of information; chris. we have to get urgent information. we've seen school shootings where the shooter has been a student and has shot one of their own parents or someone else at a location away from the school. so we have to make sure there aren't other victims somewhere else. we have to get that immediate tactical information that can save lives. and then we're going to be trying to develop the strategic information about how long has this been going on, who else may have been involved and who else may be planning to do something like this in the future. >> as you mention columbine and there have been other big high profile things that have happened at schools, places like virginia tech. take us there the mind -- is there something -- is there a thread that runs through the shooters in these school incidents? >> i think there is, chris, you know, i was at virginia tech for a week covering this story for you and msnbc and nbc. and i've been to the location about the school shootings. i've talked to dozens and dozens of high school and coll

perth one in information sharing.etween the house permanent select intelligence, homeland security, and maybe between homeland security government affairs, and house homeland. i want all of your quick spot. it is fair to say that the national security agency has the capacity, capability, and were recalled. the department of homeland security has the statute to be able to engage in this period is the current memorandum of and the standing sufficient or do we really need to enable that activity? i would argue yes, but i would be curious what some of your thoughts are. what other impediments, if any, from making that a reality? secondly, a philosophical question -- it can no longer be government lead, private-sector follow. the private-sector owns the vast majority of the emperor structure. they are the energy of innovation. the backbone of creativity. is not all big industries. a small and medium-sized businesses propel us forward. what, if any thing, can induce changes in behavior vis-a-vis the insurance sector or anyt

no one outside the meeting has the information. then one of the hedge funds that was there bought over 300,000 shares in visa. here's what it looks like if the same type of activity happens in the regular non-congress economy. >> primary global sales manager james fleischman guilty of conspiracy in an insider trading case. >> securities and exchange commission filed suit against anglo ma zillo, former head of countrywide mortgage accusing him of insider trading and fraud. >> a former managing director of the nasdaq has been charged with insider trading. >> i former goldman sachs board member has been charged with insider trading. >> sentenced to 11 years in prison, the harshest punishment ever for an insider trading case. >> jon: you know who i bet finds the juxtaposition of what congress people can do and regular people can do hysterical? martha stewart. i bet she's just laughing and laughing as she takes a reclaimed barn wood baseball foot a shelf full of vases she craftcraftd from recycled new ed lobster traps. (laughter) she's

the key to evaluating potential risk is information, by sharing and leveraging information, we can make informed decisions about how to best mitigate risk. and the more we know, the better we become at providing security that is seamless and efficient. we can also free up more resources to spend on those threats or individuals we are bound to encounter but may not know much about. the known unknown. think of it this way, if we have to look for a needle in a hey tack, -- in a haystack, it makes sense to use all the information we have about the pieces of hay to make the haystack smaller. this approach not only makes us safer, but it also creates efficiency within the system for travelers and businesses, good, thoughtful, sensible security by its very nature facilitates lawful travel and legitimate commerce. simply put, our homeland security and our economic security go hand in hand. and accordingly, security measures should to the greatest extent possible be designed to facilitate the safe and efficient movement of people and goods while securing our critical infrastructure. the movement

we have shared huge amounts of information. we will continue to share huge amounts of information. there is a misperception, as i think was indicated in the deputy attorney general's letter, that maybe i can clear up now. we're not going to be hiding behind any kind of privileges or anything to not provide this committee with information that it wants. we are talking about not providing deliberative material. and that's consistent with what executive branch agencies beyond the justice department always do. but with regard to things post-february 5th, february 4th, if there is a relevant request, we will respond to that request. the only thing we're not talking about responding to is deliberative material -- that was a great little diagram that you had up there. inaccurate in some pretty glaring ways. it's not up there now. >> that's what my boys with the baseball implied as well. >> i thank the gentleman. we can have a later discussion on how many witnesses and how much information and so on. for the attorney general's edification, and i know mr. ron wishe will help you, we have pu

it was new information. when most americans think about contraceptives, they think about their own lives and how they are related. they do not have the kind of information you brought forward this morning. i want to thank you very much for putting that information at least on our record and a record of american families. i think we needed to hear it. it is important to remember that we are accustomed to the fact that women live longer today. i wonder if we understand that that is a 20th-century phenomenon. if you were to go into the graveyard of america, you would be quite amazed with the headstones that speak of the lives of women who typically died earlier than men until the 20th century and fairly far along in the 20th century, at that, from childbirth and its complications. understand what we're talking about and how serious this issue is. the affordable child care act, of course, now covers contraceptives. it is important to also understand that before the affordable child care act, you could have a pol

what i have done in the past and did in this book is if we find information that is very sensitive, i let the government know and we have a conversation about it. they sometimes make an argument that sounds reasonable that this would damage national security, but more likely than not he can hide certain details but still get the essence out there. that is what we did in the book. we did not include all of the details. we created a map of the united states, and put on it all the organizations that we found, and it developed as an alternative and geography of the united states where the biggest cities are not new york and los angeles, they are for mead, maryland, or the chantilly, mclean, virginia, area. you really see a different america, one that you are not allowed to see, and one that i am not supposed to see, emerge out of that map. >> you used the term a detailed map -- id tell -- "map.' and you talk about the people in charge of keeping an eye on the infrastructure of the united states -- airports, chemical plants, and things like that. that will come as a big surprise that some

even for marketing purposes, personal informations can be disclosed. this is the key provision that i want to draw your attention to. there was an important compromise that the congress struck when they w

gellert, do you think it's okay or do you want more information? >> i think we can always use a lot more transparency and we ended doing a lot of pro forma sensitivity modeling for our clients when they run to run scenarios, stress testing, things that are off-balance-sheet in i guess i'm walking what you're thinking the major credit agencies think it's perfectly okay to have massive risky investments that are off the books and if they don't know about. that it's okay for you to tell the public hears our ratings. that's an incredible statement to say, and i've got to do, i walk away significant, i thought today was the day we're going to kiss and make up some of our past differences of opinion, but i guess it's not. i yield back. >> thank the gentleman. so i want to go back to some of the basics of the rating model that you use for mf global. would you put this company been in the same category as goldman sachs? in other words, are you looking at various pieces and aspects of this business, in other words, they would be in the same business categor

we talk about nation states and information. they are building the tools and the tools are not necessarily locked up in a way that they could not lead to a criminal or terrorist group. -- cannot leaked out to eight criminal or terrorist group. >> i see shimon gorman in the audience who wrote a fantastic piece on intelligence preparation in the battlefield, in this case the electric power and the like. what could the incentive be other than to map out potential targets? i put that on the table for what it's worth. >> getting back to the dhs-nsa relationship, that has to be solid. dhs needs to play in a proper role for domestic activity. with regard to insurance, i am not an insurance bureau and i don't work for financial services committee but we have talked with insurance providers on how we increase the market's ability to increase cyber insurance. the answer we usually get back as we will get there. the market will take care of itself, they say but we have also heard that actuarial data is extremely hard to get into this area

the drive by shootings on the information highway. this is about, you know, chinese hackers using all the resources of the state and intelligence agencies to hack and steal our intellectual property. that is a tough threat to defend against if you're an american company if you don't have the tools of our u.s. government, the things we know to defend ourselves. >> the chinese and russians have this capability. they have u.s. debt in new york city and in beijing. and that's probably true. they wouldn't be incentivized for it. but they're building a capability. what happens when the capability leaks, gets away, gets sold to the terrorists? let me just frame it from economics 101. the world will not work without banking, without the flow of money to lubricate the process for transfer of goods and services and so on. the two banks in new york that clear money clear somewhere around $7 trillion to $8 trillion a day and our economy is $14 trillion a year. what backs up the transactions in new york city? nothing. there is no gold. there is no

just on the response from the respondents, are they required to provide this information? you expect these questions will be complete? >> everything is open to decide what they are going to bid on, what pieces might be appropriate for them. this will be up to the financial institutions to decide what or how they will decide to respond. what we wanted to do was provide an incentive for the financial a institutions to answer these questions. the goal was to make sure that the extra credit point will be sufficient incentive to get them to share this information with us. many of the services the we will be asking for might be equivalent coming from one or more different financial institutions. the incentive we believe will exist, should two or more banks provide some of the services we are looking for. the extra credit. could help steer the business in their direction or part of the business in their direction. supervisor avalos: would you say that these banks, would they be required to keep financial information if they have a requirement? so on a yearly basis, we will expect

information -- >> isn't that withholding information? you can't tell the boss what's really going on, you're going to be oblivious to what's going on. >> we're talking about cabinet level people. and i'm saying that people who work under them, either dhs, state, other executive branch agencies are certainly providing information to the justice department so we have access to whatever information. >> and is the justice department providing that information to, say, the state department or the homeland security? that's -- you may say you're not having face-to-face discussions, which trunls me. i don't care whether you're a democrat or republican, the idea that you're being not being informed and not having conversation because you're afraid to come to the congress is troublesome at the least. >> i'm not afraid to come to congress. i've been here six times. >> i know. but if you're not being informed, you personally can claim ignorance on an issue that, is a problem. my question is, at the lower levels, is there an expectation on your part

>> we live in an information culture. the way that people look at planning funeral services has changed. really, what we did, if death happened, you reacted to it. now, the internet is such a great source of information. there are legislative directives that tell funeral homes and cemeteries how to provide information to the public. there are watchdog agencies that make sure they're following those. people get on the computer and they can get on the phone and look at prices and options, they can put together a personal service that they want, and that's a different setup than what we had 30 years ago and before that. >> and they're making that information available in hi- tech. we have about 30 seconds. what's the address. >> holycrosscemeterys.com. >> and you have a blog? >> we have a blog and a video tour and updated pricing information and upcoming events. all of the questions you need answered. >> and you're starting facebook. >> and the eyes will be clouds on your -- closed on your facebook. >> we're talking about ce

and to inform ourselves because the media is not doing a very good job of informing us and now is danny schechter filmmaker and blogger for news dissected dot net. well today is the nationwide opening of the new military flick act of valor which uses real life navy seals to give americans a realistic view of what those secretive forces do i watch the trailer and it looks exciting and heroic but it is of course hollywood so does the movie portray reality or just what the government wants you to see it's a question worth asking and when the mainstream media often ignores to what extent does the pentagon doctor hollywood scripts in order to shift public opinion are to correspond to ramon go in no shows us this cozy relationship and how it's been winning hearts and minds for years. some of the world's most elite warriors outfitted with the most technologically advanced equipment and plenty of firepower stored secure. the american hero comes out on top in act of valor but there is something missing from a hollywood suppose it realistic portrayal of the u.s. military that stuff looks fine but

>> i believe the information will be tracked in the system. president miguel: that is going to make it a lot easier for contractors. thank you very much, good progress. we will see you in six months to a year. now where are we? >> commissioners, you are on item 13 a and b. different case numbers and staff persons, but they're the same case. it is a request to consider whether or not the shadow cast by the project on buchanan will be adverse. and a request for a conditional use authorization. >> good evening, commissioners. the project before you is to construct a senior affordable housing development with up to 97 dwelling units and one manager's unit. the site is immediately north -- pardon me. it is north of the rosa parks development. in addition to 98 units, the development includes administrative offices, community rooms, open space, and relocation. it requires conditional use authorizations were building exceeding 40 feet in height with the street frontage of more than 50 feet. and code 303 and 304. at a building height for over 40 feet,

information sharing. we do need to address those issues and our bill sets up just that. with 85% of our nation's critical infrastructure don't buy the private sector the government also has a critical role to play in the most valuable part, truly catastrophic consequences meet reasonable risk based performance standards. writings that are critical systems have remained and protected. some of our colleagues are skeptical about the need for any new regulations. i have opposed efforts to expand regulations that would burden our economy. but regulations that are necessary for our national security and that promote rather than hinder our economic prosperity. there in an entirely different category. the risk-based performance requirements in our bill are targeted carefully. they apply only to specific systems and assets. not entire companies. if damage could result reasonably in mass casualties and the evacuations and catastrophic economic damages or severe degradation of our national security. some of the witn

. >> your personal information is stolen bow dow have rights? coming up, new legal pro techs that will protect you. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> the city of oakland has two new leaders in key positions tonight. a new fire chief and interim police chief gets the job permanently. after the violent occupy protests there last weekend, and $28 million in cuts made just yesterday, this, as abc 7 reports, a challenging time. now the official police chief howard jordan seeing the city through difficult times. and he says he welcomes the challenges that lie ahead. >> i know the city. it's people. it's community. this department, very well. i have an investment in the people, the safety and the success of the city. >> in march, 2009, his first stint at interim chief presiding over the funerals of four officers gunned down in one day. last year, three days after jordan replaced anthony bats, tents sprung up and the department faces a possibility of being taken over by a federal monitor. two years ago oakland had 800 office

the type of information people post are the type of information about coming you know, relationships,sexual become sexual preference, political and trust and so forth that in the past we have most stringently protected under privacy laws and so there is an argument that you have an expectation of privacy in facebook because you have different people. it's not like reading about this on a bathroom wall. you get the impression that you are talking to smaller groups and so i do see the privacy evolving to cover social networks. >> i think it's very ironic that once the data aggregate the large commercial dalia and lots of companies making money with those but nothing is done for people that are concerned with or where there originate. i remember of the department of sales certainly soared on what kind of cars people alone. this was before facebook, etc., and i thought it was an outrage at that time. so the point is how about the commercial aspect of the ownership of the data. don't they belong to me instead of the company that sells it really? shouldn't they ask or pay me for that? what

, our information systems. when the subcommittee i chair first look at this issue several years ago we found that federal agencies were wasting millions of dollars on reports that nobody read. nobody read and hardly anybody understand. they didn't make us any safer. the bill that is before us today includes many improvements to the so-called federal information security management act, affect natalie known as fisma, and it's hoped our federalling agencies are respong to threats and not just writing paper reports. from what i understand many agencies are taking steps to improve their security measures to make fisma more effective, despite the outdated legislation. i commend you for putting forward a budget request that would enshih sure your department has the resources necessary to address the growing responsibilities. here's the question. a long windup, huh? can you describe the current limitations of fisma and why the new tools we might give you might be needed. >> well, i think just getting back, one of the

cannot combine our information together. secondly it costs a lot of money. clean band width costs money and users are not willing to pay that money. first and foremost we can put threat intelligence together and globe a map of where the enemy is at any type we see a risk profile in every address on the internet, other companiy ies an governments do that, if we can share, we can make a global picture and prevent it from running. keep the enemy out. so for the policy recommendations we support the recommendations in the representative thorn barry's work and sharing tax reforms and tax credit ares and enabling the government to finally facilitate the good information sharing to put that information together to not only provide liability protections, protections for privacy and civil liberties but to balance out the advance that the adversery had over us to now so we can feed it to the fabric and have it grow and feed us the information in return. we have to work on this legal and policy frame work for global information sharing

we now know some of the information was inaccurate. we understand that in subsequent issues with investigators they stated they did not at the time the information they provided was inaccurate. in producing internal communications regarding the drafting of the february 4th letter, the department made a rare, limited exception to long-standing executive branch policy. this decision reflected unusual circumstances and allowed us to respond in the most comprehensive way possible to congressional concerns where the department itself concluded information in the letter was inaccurate. the documents we provide have answered the a question of how that letter came to be drafted and put to rest questions of intentional effort to mislead. all of our communication to congress should be accurate. that is the standard that i expect the department to meet. at my direction the deputy attorney general instituted new procedures to increase safeguards in this area. as i testified in a previous hearing, the department does not intend to produce additiona