The modalities of the consultation are something we will have to work out with the new agency. We have an objective in mind, which is to ensure that we respect the intent, both the spirit and the letter of the new law, which says to us, “You are not to do this. You are to send it over.”
We believe that in the majority of cases, we will be able to make the determination quite easily as to whether it is in pith and substance something related to national security. There will be a few instances, and again we go by history—the past being a good indicator of what may occur.... In a few instances, we will want to talk to the people at NSIRA to ensure, not necessarily in dealing in a granular manner with everything that's related to the complaint, but with enough specificity to ensure that....
It would seem to me that our default would be that if NSIRA said in that conversation, “Yes, this is a matter of national security”, we would toss it over to them, which makes the notion of them being able to return it to us, if they thought it wasn't all that more important....