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Privacy. today during his congressional testimony, john brennan had this to say about whether or not he personally requested to have americans names unmasked. >> we are talking about prohibitions that you place on yourself, with respect to identifying u.s. persons as part of our surveillance program. you just cited some of the very important reasons that we do that. i would assume there is a process, a protocol under which the intelligence community goes through -- if they seek to unmask a u.s. ...

Newspapers. were talking about prohibitions that you place on yourself with respect to identifying u.s. persons as part of our surveillance programs, right? >> thats correct. >> all right. >> yes. >> and you just cited some of the very important reasons that we do that. and i would assume that there is a process, a protocol under which the intelligence community goes through if they seek to unmask a u.s. persons name. >> thats correct. >> have you ever requested that a u.s. persons name be unmas...