Though Icannot discuss details in an open setting, as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I can tell you that before Operation Iraqi Freedom we had very little human intelligence in Iraq, and, therefore, the INC provided one of the best--and only--avenues for acquiring intelligence on Saddam Hussein's regime.12 I believe the Department of Defense would conclude it was useful.
If they cannotopen themselves up to me, I will likely not influence them in the way I need to encourage them to change their behaviors, which will, hopefully, change the behavior of their children.