The question is just simply, what is it that someone who presented these names--as you say, obviously it was one of the government members--thought they could contribute to the accuracy of these statements? We're still talking about the issue of privilege, and the issue of privilege based on objective fact and accuracy, to use Mr. Lukiwski's terminology.
If we are truly interested in those things, let's have a debate or a discussion as to what makes these people contributors to an understanding of the facts; I don't even want to say the “truth”.