And the -- with regard to this intelligence collection program, the reports that were obtained from the debriefings of these Iraq defectors were disseminated in the same way that other intelligence reporting was disseminated, contrary to one particular journalist account who suggested that the Special Plans Office became a conduit for intelligence reports from the Iraqi National Congress to the White House.
Accordingly, I wish that when regulators publish these annual reports or disseminate their surveys, that beyond the mere collection of data would be far more in the way of meaty, meaningful, helpful suggestions about what to do and how to do it.