Thank you, Chair.
I'd like to second the motion to remove the words “begin without delay to” from the motion.
Surely we need, at some point, to look at this issue. But you know, we have, at this point, an outstanding effort by this committee to get access to unredacted documents. We ourselves should be finding a way to receive those documents without doing injury to national security or other aspects of confidence in the public interest. And I believe that we can do that. As long as that remains unresolved, I think we still have to continue with the Afghanistan study.
We heard new information today. For example, it may take up to two years for Mr. Iacobucci to do his review. You can interpret it whatever way you want, Mr. Dechert--I've interpreted it one way--and we'll let the chips fall where they may. I will agree that we need, at some point, to look at that, but not before we have some resolution to this issue of our ability to get at the truth through this committee. The reason we're doing this work, by the way--and I think Mr. Champ recognized that today--on the detainee issue is that there doesn't appear to be another effective mechanism available to do the whole issue. As he indicated, the Military Police Complaints Commission is looking at only one specific aspect of it. An inquiry would look at the whole picture. We're attempting to fill the gap until there is an inquiry, and I think we have an obligation to do that.