With respect, I appreciate what you're trying to do. My difficulty and my concern would be that the further we push him down the process, the more he just by osmosis becomes part of it, whereas if we frame it that we're in fact-finding mode and that's part of it, it seems to me that it might be easier to keep him compartmentalized.
It's our Speaker, and we want the Speaker to succeed, so we want to keep him from that. I just worry that if we push it down too far, it starts to get mooshed together, and it's hard to separate it, whereas if we do it right up front, near the beginning, it's part of the macro, the generic, the background, and a sort of technical briefing, and then we move on to the instant case. That would be my only concern, but I appreciate the suggestions.