Professor Franks, on an experimental basis, this committee attempted to do something similar to what you suggest and have an in camera briefing on Monday dealing with the issues, with the idea that members would be better briefed and the staff would be here when the shells started on Tuesday and Thursday. It really didn't work. The fault was both on the members and on the witnesses. The members dealt with it as just another meeting and went right to the political event. The witnesses, instead of dealing with it as a briefing, came with a dozen staff and were here to sometimes muddy the issue, as Mr. Nadeau says.
We abandoned the idea after two or three weeks. It didn't suit the purpose we thought it might when we started it, and we did try. We might try something again in a different format in the fall, but that was the thought process behind it, and that's what we did. But we all felt it didn't work.