Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for the question.
If you'll permit me to finish, what we were trying to balance in the instances when we did speak publicly—and we did so on two occasions, out of the five appearances we had—were a number of concerns.
First, we wanted to ensure that when we did speak publicly, we were not unduly amplifying the messages of foreign interference actors by contributing to the dialogue. Second, in some instances we needed to ensure that we were ensuring the integrity of national security investigations—