Chair, we had an unequivocal statement here that the political system never interfered and only a few examples that came up in Gomery listed.... Yet we had a very clear statement before this committee in 2004 that the process was “very, very, very political”--three “verys”--and that there were political appointees who ran the group from an operational point of view.
On June 6th, 2007. See this statement in context.