When you're dealing with issues that potentially deal with safety, and a committee such as this is seeking answers from people, there's the extra caution needed to try to avoid the perception that somehow the answers are being filtered or tainted, or whatever you want to call it, or directed, as opposed to a committee such as this having the ability to get information from individuals. We would have the ability, obviously, to ask you to appear, or we could ask a staff member to appear, lower staff members, because we wanted an answer or we wanted information from those staff people.
On March 28th, 2007. See this statement in context.