ms. spaulding and we look forward to your answering them too. >> make sure your microphone is on please. >> thank you chairman carper think you've ranking member coburn emotion of the committee for the opportunity to testify today. nctc director matt olson and i don't often testify in open hearings so today's important opportunity we believe to share their understanding of what we see is an evolving threat and to share that understanding with the committee and the american public. earlier in the summer 9/11 commissioners challenged national security leaders to communicate more regularly with the american public about the threat and we hope to do just that. as i begin this morning i went to frame this evolving threat in broad terms applicable cross individual groups and terrorist networks. the threat from terrorist groups as we see today is geographically diffused from a diverse array of factors and proving overtime to be both resilience and adapted to the counterterrorism pressure we are putting on it. the global jihad is movement continues to increasingly decentralized itself both in te

ms. spaulding, want to visit the issue of information sharing and the sequencing of fisa reauthorizationation sharing, either in the open session or closed session. dr. coburn. >> well, thank you. i hope the media that's here today actually listened to what you had to say, nick. a very cogent, open assessment of where we are, not on the basis to scare people, but on the basis to inform them of where we really are. i think the other thing that i would comment on is i'm really happy to see the fbi being, aggressive on deterrence, because for so long, we thought we can build a higher and higher wall that people can't climb over. they are gonna climb over every wall on cyber that we have. and we have to have both efforts, we have to have the wall, but we also have to have the prosecutorial deter reps that says you come mess, it's gonna be painful. and so i'm very thankful for that attitude coming from the fbi. i hope to see more and more and more, both domestically and internationally, because of the costs. general taylor, let me just ask you a couple of questions. has ina produced any intel