God bless you, Mr. Williams. I just had the very same conversation with Mr. McCauley last week. I said, “What the hell is the point of all this if every time you ask a question about something...?” I'm not trying to be combative with the government or with anybody who works inside of the military or procurement, but every time you ask them about any of this, they say, “Oh, I can't tell you that. That's secret information.”
Mr. McCauley informed me that in other countries they're quite open about much of this, and you can find it right on their own websites. If there are things that come out of this—and I don't care who the MPs are years from now—that should be one of them. How can you do your job as a member of Parliament on a committee like this when you get stonewalled at every single chance, when they can't even tell you if they're planning on buying a Javelin, a Stinger or a Switchblade? That should just be basic information. The U.S. seems quite prepared to brag about everything they own and where they're going to send it, and we can't even tell anything.
Enough about—