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.
James ComeyOur need for public safety and our need for privacy are crashing into each other and we've got to sort that out.
James ComeyI 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.
James Comey