WASHINGTON, D.C. -- It took a print reporter at a "blogger roundtable" Tuesday to bring a flash of anger to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's voice.

Following up on a question about amnesty for telecoms and whether Homeland Security investigators were hampered by the expiration of the Protect America Act in mid-February, Congressional Quarterly's Jeff Stein asked Chertoff if any of the information "harvested" from the president's five-year long warrantless wiretapping program was ever sent to him in the form of intelligence reports.

Chertoff disputed the premise of the question, saying he didn't know what Stein meant using the term "harvesting," and that, anyway, the intelligence "products" don't specify where information comes from.

Chertoff described DHS's Cyber Security Initiative as one of his top priorities, along with Real ID, before leaving office at the end of Bush's term.