It has been mentioned twice, by both of you, that section 6 of the new information sharing act basically allows for any one of the 17 recipients to then share, pass on that information to any person for any purpose. The act starts out by suggesting, in section 4, that “respect for caveats” and “originator control” of information are principles in the act. The moment I read that, I asked myself if there was an operative part, and I could not find any operative part of the act that gives any legal force to those principles.
To me, it's section 6 that governs, which is that basically information could be shared, including with foreign agencies, including in circumstances that we know produced the Elmaati, Almalki, Nureddin, and Arar situations. It almost feels like a bait and switch going on, in that the principles have stayed, but they actually have no operative force. Is that correct?