I understand that the custody protocol is well known to your legal counsel. However, if there is any obstruction to your having access to your papers or to your having them present with you wherever you are required to be detained, this committee will support and enforce the Speaker's warrant that you will have full access to your documents and that you are authorized to have them fully to be prepared.
I believe that this is the spirit and the intent of the warrant. I don't want to have you come back here again to say “I was here, but they wouldn't let me have my papers”. That will not be acceptable.
If that is the case and you have been prohibited in some way or have been precluded from having your records and doing what you have been asked to be able to do, you will have justification. But others will have to be accountable to this committee for interfering with the instructions given to you by this committee.
I give you that assurance, and I ask for your commitment that you will come back to this committee with your documents and will be prepared to give responses to the questions the members pose.
Is that acceptable to you, sir, and understood?