ms. o'sullivan? >> yes, sir. >> the nsa has been subjected to a lot of unwarranted abuse since snowden's treasonous disclosures. i want to publicly take you and all the patriotic americans who serve our nation by quietly performing in essays vital mission. in your opinion, is this country safer or less safe after those damaging disclosures? >> versed, thank you for the words of support. for the nsa workforce. we appreciate that. in my opinion, the country is less safe because of the disclosure of the methods that we used to conduct our authorized foreign intelligence mission. >> it doesn't appear to be -- there doesn't appear to be any requirements in the bill for service providers to retain call detail records for any set period of time as you just discussed with the chairman. mr. ledgett come if service providers decide to scale back their data retention period, how would that impact msas mission? >> mr. vice chairman, that would make it, make the information less useful for providing intelligence

ms. o'sullivan. >> chairman feinstein, vice chairman chen was vice chairman chen was industry whispers offew key points in my remarks. over the past year the nation as big a case in a robust discussion about how the intelligence community uses its authorities to collect critical foreign intelligence in a manner that protects civil liberties and privacy. if we take great care to ensure the protection of individual privacy and civil liberties. nevertheless, we have continued to examine ways to increase the confidence of our fellow citizens, that their privacy is being protected while at the same time providing the intelligence committee with the authority it needs to fulfill its mission and responsibility. to that end we have increased our transparency efforts and the director of national intelligence has declassified and released thousands of pages of documents about intelligence collection programs. including court decisions and a variety of other documents. we are continuing to do so. these doctrines demonstrate the commitment of all three branches of the government to ensuring that thes