of that collection. what you did is look for the terrorist and his communications into the united states. that would be a first degree. it was a two-degree principle that we were using. then you look at the contact in the united states and the people he communicated with. that was the two-degree principle. that s your zone of suspicion. and then you also look at the jihadi sites and who s using or who s looking at those jihadi sites over and over again. that also gets into the zone of suspicion. the rest of the population you ignore because they re not relevant to doing the target the terrorist program. you guys i don t know a terrorist yet that hasn t fit into those two categories of that activity. that s interesting. kirk, let me ask you. because this is a revolutionary information processing system. you called it thin thread. you could have done all these things without going after every american and their private information? absolutely. it s a crawl into what is called