opportunity to respond to the descent in the letter, a confidential letter, then was leaked, from michael ostraholm in his criticism of the nsabb decisions and to some extent, not totally reflected by dr. engelsby, but also expressing some concern. dr. penn, why don't you again? >> first off on the committee, we are a board of 25 highly qualified individuals and we rarely agree on anything. >> sounds like congress. >> i know. >> although we may not be highly col colorful. >> we actually embrace this and use it and we cherish the members and this particular group as well. this was a letter meant for an internal process for us to understand in a retrospective fashion what we did come through and as a very constructive type of communication. it was you aren't it was leaked and became part of the public dialogue. makes it harder to have a constructive type conversation. in fact there was a bias in the witness left. i think that is true. the primary witnesses that we brought in for this hearing were ine investigators themselves. they're inherently biased. they wanted their work published. we brought in

letter which was, i gather, originally a confidential letter and then was leaked from -- from michael ostraholm in his criticism of the nsabb decisions and to some extent, not totally reflected by dr. engelsby, but also dr. engilsby expressing some concern about the decision. dr. keim, why don't you begin? >> first off on the committee, we are again a board of 25 high ly qualified individuals and we rarely agree upon anything. >> sounds like congress. >> i know. awe although we may not be highly qualified. >> i must say we actually embrace this dissent and weep use it and we cherish the different members and their opinions and it's true for this particular example as well. i did, this was in fact, a letter that was meant for an internal type of a process for us to understand in a retrospective fashion what we had done and what we had come through and it was as such, i view it as a very constructive type of communication. it was unfortunate that it was leaked and it became part of the public dialogue. it makes it harder to have a constructive and proactive type conversation there. many things yo