My letter was talking in terms of legal power to compel, and I'm saying that it has no legal power to compel the government to do this. The House, on the basis of a committee report, could speak in language suggesting compulsion and force and demand and so on, but the government would not be legally obliged to adhere to that demand. Having said that, whatever else the House might do by way of urging or letters or beseeching, all those avenues, of course, are available to either this committee or to the House or to individual members, as the case may be. The point in my letter was to say that there's no legal power to compel the government to act in that fashion.
On June 1st, 2009. See this statement in context.