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>> far less apparent than the bush administration? >> yes. >> that's another reason why benny and drake have been opponents of this. >> what could they do with it what are the controls what does the over sight mean? >> one man they hoped would do it is the national security agency general alexander. when he applied request to sit down with the interview we sat down with a washington think tank where he was speaking at a security event. >> do you hold data on u.s. citizens? >> we don't hold data on u.s. citizens. they take protecting your civil liberties and privacy as the most important thing ...

Some of the families who have suffered so terribly? >> you know, i had the chance to speak with a number of people today at the hospital, and on the streets. they feel blessed that they have been able to escape with life, and in some cases with injury that is not going to impair their life going forward. and people are obviously hurting. and are concerned about their future. but at the same time, they feel confidence in the kind of support they've received from their friends and from others in the community. and they recognize that this is a nation that will come together at this critical time...

Washington will be on a much smaller scale, of course, than four years ago but that does not mean security will be relaxed. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is here with a preview. good evening. >> good evening. this event is an nfsd, national specific security event. which means the secret service is the lead agency for security and f.b.i. is lead agency for intelligence counterterrorism and investigation. earlier in week, fox news with the other media organizations toured the command center for secret service at undisclosed location in washington. this is a central coordin...

Witness and that is a fraction of the 2 million that came around last time. a daunting task for security teams that will have to keep an eye on everything going on. officials don't have any credible threats but there is concern about a lone wolf terrorist. katherine heritage. they have deemed this a national special security event? >> reporter: that is right, gregg. they call it nnse, secret service is the lead agency and f.b.i. is the lead agency for intelligence counterterrorism and investigations. then you also have a fema as the lead agency if there any kind of recovery response. earlier t...

Blase, but to complicate this, this is a national special security event, so the lead agency in charge behind the scenes is the united states secret service. so you put them in charge of doing the overall planning, but then with the hurricane coming, obviously fema will become the lead in doing the coordination with state and local officials, but i would say that all the models i've seen of this thing, it could be a category 1, which means 80 mile-an-hour winds, a lot of rain, maybe a little bit of storm surge, but the engineering reports on the convention center, all of those look good. this ...