Absolutely. There's no way we should be hiding behind flight safety if a deliberate, intentional, or criminally negligent action is taking place. Never. What used to happen in the air force is that we'd have a flight safety stream, and the flight safety person doing the inspection would call the squadron commander and say that the commander needed to start a parallel investigation. That's all he could say, because they'd identified something criminally negligent or damaging. There's no way that can occur. What we're talking about on a day-to-day basis is that the normal flight safety report of something that may cause injury can't then be summoned by lawyers or brought out in court to use for other purposes than safety; otherwise we're not going to get honest and fulsome reporting.
As for what you said, sir, absolutely, we don't condone that at all. We could probably give you examples of flight data management when the gatekeepers have looked and put up a red flag that's caused some ramifications not related to safety.