Mr. Chair, as I have stated, I am not going to make comments about the actual proceedings of the case in the past tense. It would be inappropriate for me to do that. There are always a lot of strategic moves that are made throughout the course of a trial.
What I can say is that the justice department's role in this matter was in fulfillment of third party document requests, for which my department specifically set up a process. That process was followed because of the complexity and the sheer number of the documents requested. The process was set up to evaluate the requests and to then decide whether those documents were covered by some sort of privilege or confidence.
Again, it is a complex process, and we delegated the final decision-making authority to a judge.