I'm generally of the view that those agencies have been restricted by three or four very serious constraints, which the committee and those serving it would not necessarily have to be constrained by. The fact that SIRC has been largely retroactive in its view, based on finding out about complaints that people have lodged, in my view, is insufficient scope. That's number one. Number two is that, certainly from the work I did in the upper chamber when we interviewed people such as the inspector general for the Communications Security Establishment, the notion that a judge and small staff could in any way provide oversight for the millions of messages that agency was intercepting for a whole series of constructive purposes is, frankly, laughable.
It wasn't for any lack of effort on the judge's part or his staff's part, but the quantum for what had to be addressed was insufficient.