community and help over see the collection of foreign intelligence information. i know earlier senator leahy and perhaps senator lee asked you a little bit about about the usa freedom act and the national security agency. but i want to highlight something you're well aware of, and that's the sunsetting of section 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act. according to the privacy and civil liberties oversight board which congress appropriately appointed to oversee the activities of the intelligence community, section 702, which will expire at the end of this year, has been responsible for disrupting more than 100 known terrorist plots, including the new york subway bomb plot in 2009 and other plots outside the united states. as i said, if we don't act by the end of the year, that authority will expire. i think we are fortunate on the