When we’re talking about using a device to find the location of a particular individual and where they might be using their cellphone, it’s not about intercepting their calls, their communications. We can’t listen to their calls without a court order. It may be about finding what cell tower someone’s phone is pinging off of. And with appropriate authority, we, the feds, and our local brothers and sisters, have to be able to do that to be able to investigate all kinds of things. It’s how we find killers. It’s how we find kidnappers. It’s how we find drug dealers. It’s how we find missing children. It’s how we find pedophiles.
So it’s work that you want us to be able to do—again, appropriately, with appropriate authority, and with appropriate overseeing. But to me it’s not about—I didn’t mean to accuse you of asking a trick question. But you used the term “bulk collection.” That means something very different to me, and also “collection,” to me, means something very different to me. This is not about the content of people’s communications or collecting every number that they dial. OK? To me, it’s about—we are using some equipment, appropriately in my view, to find bad guys. I don’t want to say too much about that because I don’t want the bad guys to know how we might be able to find them. That’s one of the reasons why we ask local authorities who are working with us and using our equipment not to talk about it. It’s not that I have something to hide from good people, but I got a lot to hide from bad people.
