So you could actually, in a sense, not be forthright with the committee—and there's no risk involved in being forthright with the committee, as I now gather—but you would not prevent the PCO from saying something publicly that might jeopardize an investigation, whether past, current, or future.
What I'm now left with is that there was absolutely no investigation, past, current, or future, but you didn't tell us. You didn't tell us that you didn't contact PCO.