Mr. Chairman, I'm quite prepared and pleased to respond to committee members' questions in public. It's just that in the nature of my role as legal adviser, it's not usually the case that a client takes legal advice in public. It understandably will put constraints on what I might provide by way of advice. If I'm advised to give full and frank advice as to the options, that might be difficult to do--and not serve the interests of the committee to be doing it publicly.
On February 15th, 2011. See this statement in context.