Thank you for your question, sir.
We would be back to where we were between May 1999 and 2002, having to find methods other than undercover operations and infiltrating criminal organizations, because our very ability to obtain evidence against these criminal organizations through the undercover technique would be extremely limited.
We would be left again with conventional techniques of surveillance and wiretaps, and as I indicated earlier in my testimony, although they're valuable techniques they very often are not effective, in that criminal organizations don't talk over the phone very much. It becomes very difficult; you start playing a guessing game. They are very effective combined with an undercover operation, in that one can corroborate the other. But on their own, they're not very effective.
So I think it would impact us very negatively.