First of all, for the record, I would like to confirm to the committee that there was no pattern of concealment with regard to the Afghan human rights reports. This request came into my office and was examined, we sought the records, we obtained the records, and we processed the records, all in accordance with the provisions of the act. Mind you, we didn't meet the deadline. As I said, I'm very apologetic about the fact that we didn't meet that deadline. Yes, we were dead in the water, but we continued the processing.
At the end of the day, on April 23, we provided him with both a response on the Afghan reports and a response to the effect that the U.S. report did not exist. We did a search, and that particular record does not exist within our department.