I shouldn't talk about individuals in an open forum, at least without thinking about it better.

In our counterterrorism cases and our counterintelligence cases, we can issue all kinds of - of layers of approval in the FBI, a national security letter to find out the subscriber to a particular telephone number and to find out what numbers that telephone number was in contact with. Not the content of those communications, but just the connection.

Our focus is and should be on the leakers, not those that are obtaining it as part of legitimate newsgathering.

What we want to work with manufacturers on is to figure out how can we accommodate both interests in a sensible way? How can we optimize the privacy, security features of their devices and allow court orders to be complied with?

WikiLeaks is a important focus of our attention.

In my view, a huge portion of WikiLeaks's activities has nothing to do with legitimate newsgathering, informing the public, commenting on important public controversies, but is simply about releasing classified information to damage the United States of America.

I care a lot about privacy. I also care an awful lot about public safety. There continues to be a huge collision between those two things we care about.