We've intended to have the provisions developed in a way that meets those goals of both encouraging responsible disclosure and doing so in a charter-compliant way. We have the reference in the preamble to the charter. We have guiding principles that are intended to help guide interpretation and application of the act.
In the end, we did not decide to have a compulsion to share information. We very much had the charter privacy protection in mind there. It's a discretionary authority to disclose. It has to be according to case law and exercised in accordance with the charter. The attempt is to encourage disclosure by having one clear authority that applies to all disclosing institutions, some 200 disclosing institutions, so it's laid over the patchwork of regimes that already existed.
In exercising discretion, the agencies would have to keep in mind the very important national security reasons that their information, if relevant, should be disclosed; however, it's not a rubber-stamp exercise, so in exercising discretion they could also have valid reasons for not sharing it. In developing a one-size-fits-all act, we had to think that there might be impacts on ongoing investigations and things that would mitigate against disclosure. We really tried to put a framework in place that would allow appropriate exercise of discretion in a charter-compliant way and encourage the important national security objectives of the act.