Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
I'd like to thank our witnesses for coming today.
Mr. Cullen referred to the subcommittee of this committee that reviewed the Anti-terrorism Act. I chaired that committee, and we dealt with security certificates, although they weren't part of the Anti-terrorism Act.
I'm just trying to remember our discussions. One of the reasons that I think the SIRC model wasn't used was that in SIRC proceedings the government-cleared legal counsel who participate in closed SIRC proceedings are in fact SIRC counsel, and their responsibility is to the SIRC process, not to the subject of the SIRC proceedings. That's why the SIRC counsel may communicate with the individual, and the consequences of an inadvertent disclosure really were significantly less. That's why it would not address the Supreme Court ruling.
I wonder what you might have to say about that, both of you.