Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
We find our party in a somewhat unusual circumstance here in that generally we feel that the special advocate process is deficient, but it's better than no process. So in this case when someone is in court and information needs to be kept from the public for security reasons—we accept that does happen—it's important that someone be there. If we're having a court process, there have to be two sides to that process, and without someone there on the other side it violates the basic way we do things in our court system. So the judge is the neutral arbiter of the two sides of the case. We're suggesting that in those cases when it affects national security and you can't share it with that person, a special advocate should be appointed to protect the interests of the appellant and to make it a two-sided case before the judge.