Thank you, Madam Chair.
At the end of the day, I think what should matter to us is the veracity of the information that's put before us, and whether or not this is a good deal. That's what we have to get to the bottom of.
The problem I have is that we've spent a lot of time talking about things that frankly I think are extremely immaterial. We've asked you how long your company has been there. We compared your résumé. We've done all of these various things, which I don't think help us at all.
I can tell you that I have a good deal of respect for some of the companies mentioned. In fact I worked for some of them myself. But I also know that large companies are not infallible, and they often do make mistakes.
I found a great deal of irony in antagonizing you as a witness, Mr. McCracken, to provide information on the one hand, when you then say, if I understood you correctly, that the reason you can't provide it is that they don't want it to be made public. So they're antagonizing you about giving information that they won't let you give, which seems rather ironic. Perhaps what I would ask is whether you would be willing to provide all the information if you could be given an assurance by the government that they would let you share the information you have.