. >> my name is nishikawa, japanese security consultant. my question is to mr. olsen. my question is very simple. how ought national counterterrorism center coopera cooperate, information sharing with japan, for counterterrorism? >> right. the question is sort of -- how does the -- where i was at the national counterterrorism center, how do we conduct information sharing with japan or that can make it more broadly other countries. so we're -- when i was at the national counterterrorism center, we weren't the main way that information gets shared on counterterrorism that really is largely done by the collection agencies, themselves, cia and nsa and fbi with their kou counterparts. since they were the initial collectors of the information they understood who to share it with, what the rules would apply to the sharing of information. you know, that said, we had -- we had strong relationships with japan and particularly countries in europe and elsewhere in asia on the counterterrorism efforts. so what we were often sharing was analytic products. somethings that we would an