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>> does the fbi own or currently use drones, if so, for what purpose? >> yes, and for surveillance. >> reporter: pushed on privacy policies covering use and retention of surveillance data gathered within the u.s., mueller says it is a work in progress. >> we have very few, have limited use, and we're exploring not only the use but also the necessary guidelines for that use. >> reporter: the fbi now confirms drone use during this alabama hostage standoff that ended with safe return of a five-year-old boy. in a statement the fbi emphasized, quote, use of uav's governed by existing bureau aircraf...

To thank you for that. thank you for your patriotism, thank you for continuing to serve to protect the united states. again, you have that great burden of knowing lots of classified information you cannot talk publicly about. i want you to know thank you on behalf of america for yourself to your country. the committee has been extensively briefed as part of our ongoing oversight, over the 16 elements of the intelligence community and the intelligence program. in order to fully understand collection programs, most of these briefings and hearings have taken place in classified settings, nonethel...

Oversight, first within nsa, then involving my agency, the office of the director of national intelligence and the department of justice and ultimately involving the fisa court and the congress, to insure that these rules are complied with. and the last point that i -- the last misconception i want to address is that this information shouldn't have been classified and it was classified only to conceal it from the american people, and that the leaks of this information are not damaging. and mr. chairman and mr. ranking member you both made this point. these are as general alexander said, extrem...

I think we need to do that to stop terrorism. but we need strong safeguards so there can't be future abuses of power by government that decides to look at people and use potentially embarrassing information in ways that it never should have been able to do. >> michelle, you can understand the conversation we have tonight. god forbid there were an attack, had we analyze d it properly, could have prevented. that's what we're all seeking to stop, no? >> well, there's no evidence that these sorts of collection programs actually work in the terrorism context. we've been collecting this information ...

Towards the end of the bush administration about the warrantless surveillance aspects of its intelligence collection programs that all of the spread indications by which the government can collect surveillance on american citizen s has gotten so enormously broad common sense restrictions embodied in these laws do not appear to jive with the actions we have seen. >> this brings me to this question. this is a line from the "washington post" a story i want to know. firsthand experience in these systems and horror at their capabilities is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide power p...