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There's intelligence value and we're going to report on it, it is normally disseminated in a masked form. we'll use a rirchs u.s. person one, u.s. person two. if you look at the highlight of our total breadth of our reporting, involving u.s. persons at all is an incredibly small subset. >> who normally in the n.l.a. would make the decision to unmask? >> there are 20 authorities includes myself. >> and does the level of approve chan change. >> if it was someone very important, would that -- requests can be pushed up to my level saying, hey, sir, we just want to make sure you're comfortable with...

You spoke about masking, and trying to keep a u.s. person's identity concealed. and when it is disseminated, we often talk about in the intelligence community about the exceptions to, if somebody is masked, how you unmask them. what would the exceptions to that masking be before it's disseminated? >> so again, we use two criteria. the need to know on the person requesting us and the execution, and the second part was, is the identification necessary to truly understand the context of the intelligence value that the report is designed to generate. those are the two criteria we use. >> is that i...

Trying to keep a u.s. person's identity concealed. when it is disseminated we often talk about in the intelligence community about the exceptions to if some of the masks -- how you unmask them. what are the exceptions to the masking be before it's disseminated? >> again two criteria the need- need-to-know and the execution of official duties and is itry for the intelligence value the report is designed to generate. those are the two criteria we use. >> and is the identity of a person is that disseminated in the masked or unmasked. . >> it's normally disseminate. if we make the determination th...

The way it works, if the nsa accidentally hears the name or voice of an american while spying on a foreign national, they retkabgt the name and replace it with u.s. citizen number one or u.s. citizen number two. but if somebody sees that report and wants to know who u.s. citizen number one is, then the nsa makes a decision like this. >> criteria need to know on the person requesting us and the execution of official duties and the second part was, is the identification necessary to truly understand the con tech of the intelligence value that the report is designed to generate. those are the two...

Has nothing do with our valid collection authority. in some cases we will just personal it has no intelligence value and it wasn't the purpose of what we were doing. in some cases then if we believe that there is intelligence value, for example, whether it's a difference to a and in our rorgt we will mask the identity of the person, we'll use a phrase like u.s. person 1 or u.s. person 2. for our purposes, u.s. person is defined very broadly. that is not just a u.s. citizen, that is a shipper/air so it's not just a particular individual if that's makes sense. the term for us is much broader bec...