I asked Mr. Clark at his previous appearance how he was notified that the process was occurring and whether he could provide documentation of that notification. He said that there was no documentation. It was all done verbally. Is that convenient? Is that appropriate, given the context and the need to document notification of significant officials like Mr. Clark? It seems unusual that something like notifying the consul general that a process was taking place wouldn't be documented in some way through an email, a memo or something like that. It seems to kind of play into this pattern that we're seeing, which is that he actually had a more involved role than he said he had, but none of it was supposed to be documented because if he were that involved, it wouldn't be following the department's procedures.
Why wasn't it documented when he was notified of the process?