Then it opens up a whole series of questions that are possible.
It's a government decision. They have decided that they want to run these witnesses through that filter and they are entitled to ask any questions they want. They spend most of their time talking out the clock anyway because they don't like the answers they get, but that's very different from making it part of the regular procedure that the chair of the meeting.... It's almost like swearing people under oath, that people have to go through certain hoops and divulge certain things before the meeting can ever start.