a large cost. they limit our ability to capitalize on the promise of information technology. i m directing an effort to consolidate these assets to take advantage of the department s significant economies of scale, thereby creating savings in acquisition, sustainment and manpower costs. it will allow the department common functions and improve our ability to defend defense networks against growing cyber threats. fifth, this department is awash in taskings for reports and studies. in 19 # 0, the pentagon produced a total of 37 reports for the congress, a number that topped off at more than 700 reports in last year s cycle. consider that as of 2009, the department had nearly 1,000 contractors working in some capacity producing reports for the congress of which more than 200 were working full time.
be some level of surveillance activity, perhaps legal, but i don t know that it s right and i don t know that the american people would be comfortable with what i ve read. but let us get all the reports and chairman, was the president correct in what he tweeted? it is possible. mr. chairman, the president that president obama tapped his phones. no, no, no. that didn t that did not happen. i ve said this for many, many weeks, including the day the day after, a couple days after in front of the press, that never happened. so, that never happened. did president obama order any kind of surveillance of the president, president-elect? well, we don ten who sent the taskings. if the taskings were changed into what went into these intelligence reports but we re going to try to find that out. mr. chairman, did you have
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investigation. what i m told is that the russians gave a sort of generalized summary of what the mother s views were. saying that the mother and the son may have become radicalized. they were talking around it. the people i ve talked to say it s not surprising that the russians didn t give excerpts from the wiretaps. they say if we were sending intelligence taskings to the russians, we probably wouldn t give them excerpts of our fisa warth pick-ups either. we rarely share that kind of sources and methods with foreign services, nor they with us and especially the russians with whom there s been an edgy at best relationship. one other factor here is that will was some criticism from peter king and others this weekend, that the fbi did not share information on this very preliminary investigation of tamerlan with the boston joint task force, with local authorities. again, that would be the fbi s responsibility we didn t have enough to go with. to share any information on it.