I would like to add to that. I was counsel to Mr. Arar, and Mr. Cavalluzzo and his team of lawyers met, read all of the secret evidence, and then continued to meet with us. They would ask us questions, and of course we would say, why is he asking that question? We wouldn't know, but he assured us after the fact that the answers to those questions were extremely important in his being able to undertake an effective cross-examination of the secret witnesses in the in camera hearings. But as he said, “I knew how to ask the questions to try to elicit the information I needed, and obviously I didn't reveal anything, because we would never come away from that knowing anything more than we knew before we came in.”
That is just another example of a scenario in which ongoing contact was permitted. There were no leaks, and yet it made the special advocate, or the counsel in this case, a more effective advocate for the individual.