The big push with this is to expeditiously get people in. We're really trying to hone in on this and get them in as quickly as we can.

Currently, over half of all FBI employees have a non-classified e-mail account.

The lessons learned from the Trilogy program are guiding us, and the FBI continues to strengthen our internal controls.

However, shorter deadlines may be set to meet the needs of the White House.

There are short-term questions to be sure -- the impact of changes in residential housing markets and the prospects for inflation are two -- but, overall, the economy in 2006 seems likely to be very well-behaved.

We may be entering a period in which policy changes are even more dependent than they have been on current readings of the economy, with all the uncertainty such readings can bring.