Monsieur Berthold, again you're mis-characterizing what happened. I was never offered a briefing from the director on this matter. That information was never shared with me. Unfortunately, I learned about it when it was reported in The Globe and Mail.
Although I don't question at all the credibility of the director of CSIS, I can tell you absolutely and uncategorically that the information was never shared with me. I was never aware it even existed.
Finally and most importantly, it was not a question of.... If the director had secret information that he felt I needed to see, frankly, it was his responsibility to alert me to that. He could have called me. He could have sent me an email. He could have come over to see me as he had done in every other case, but that did not happen in this case. That information was never shared with me.