i want to ask you about the october 2011 letter sent by ron are -- ronald whyte regarding section 215. information was classified and even most members of congress. mr. white seemed to reply in his response that because congress, or at least a number of members of congress, anyway, received intelligence readings in accordance with the patriot act, there is no cause for alarm that the government was using a secret law to expand surveillance activities. the patriot act was passed in response to 9/11, bolstering security by expanding techniques used by government law enforcement individuals to hunt down terrorist. section 215 had a standard of relevance. you had to be concrete information linking a person to a terrorist organization before their information can be taken. the fisa court has rewritten the section to say any and all persons records may be considered relevant, allowing the nsa to collect data on all americans. madefact is, in 2012, the 1789 request in the court approved 1788 and withdrew the other. the member of congress not pretty to the death privies to those, i had to ext