I would hope it would have a positive impact on public confidence. As you know, most western intelligence services do have some form of parliamentary or congressional legislative review. Personally, I think there would be some benefit to having that in terms of, at a minimum, developing a better understanding on the part of parliamentarians as to what organizations such as ours do or don't do, how they do it, and so on, so that the level of conversancy with these matters is better understood. The fact that elected representatives of the people are so informed I would hope would have a positive impact on public confidence as well.
On October 31st, 2006. See this statement in context.