Mr. Guité, over and over throughout today's hearing you've said the political system never interfered. Yet in testimony before the committee in 2004, when you felt at that point you were free from your oath of confidentiality as a civil servant, for the purpose of testifying before the committee, the funding operations you oversaw were, in your words, “political”. Let me be even more accurate: the wording you used was “very, very, very political”--three ”verys”. You went on to say “there were political appointees, and they ran the group from an operational point of view”. How do I match that?
On June 6th, 2007. See this statement in context.