I remember talking to a highly respected political figure a few years ago, and he said something very interesting to me. He said, “Diane, anything you put in writing becomes a public document.”
I think that's the concern, Bruce. If you have something written on a piece of paper that is floating around, the chances of it becoming public are very high. We've seen with WikiLeaks and other things that even so-called confidential documents suddenly become spread all over the Internet. If I were an informant—not that I know anything, but there might be some who do—knowing that this document was on computers and in the cyberworld would make me extremely nervous. I would be much less likely to come forward with information in that case.
As a lawyer, I would point out another thing. We all love lawyers, but you get into the question of how explicit does it need to be. Is it explicit enough? What kind of language is actually explicit?
Lawyers would have a field day. It's like the disclaimer at the end of e-mails. It started out saying “this is for the addressee only”, but now it's like a whole page of a disclaimer because more and more stuff has been added. I think we're wading into waters that would just cause more problems than this would solve.