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you think the source is? and i just to the extent that you can say time and date and if you will, accountable individual who you think is the decision maker or the impediment, i would like that answer as succinctly as possible. miss buller? in my case it s very easy to pinpoint the time and the person. the passage of the act mandating the restrictive reporting was the impetus. the person was the general counsel. basically, he has taken the opportunity to interpret the act to impede our access. mr. elkins? in my case, you know, i have two agencies that i oversee, the csb and environmental protection agency. in both cases, i have to say that issues relative to access starts at the top with a clear message from the top that access will be granted, it will be granted. to the extent that there is a muddled message or the message is not clear, you end up in situations that we have here today. some of the on the csb side of the house, the issues started back in 2010, ....
a sort of a blatant cover-up of sexual abuse cases that some might embarrass the agency. i guess you expose yourself when you send people to foreign lands, or on any mission to any locals, or foreign nationals taking advantage of american personnel. but i think how prevalent is the case of problems with peace corps workers being involved in these instances? usually it s a host country national involved in the assaults. from what we gathered, the information we gathered, it s usually volunteer in about 47% of the case. how many? 4%. that s very embarrassing, i would imagine to the agency. you know, again, i think we have a particular position of responsibility to deal with that kind of action. and also, i think you should have that authority to uncover, again, what s going on, and expose it. a couple of questions, because we ve the inspector generals have been under attack for a number of years now. several ways of attacking them, one, get rid of them. we wen ....
problem. how do you respond to that sentence? i ll start with mr. horowitz. i can only speak from experience and what i ve heard from other igs, which is we have faced road blocks in several of our reviews, untimely access. where we have gotten it, it has taken a fair amount of time. i think the other igs have had their experiences. i know from conversations with fellow igs, while they haven t had lawyers come forward and say we can t legally give it to you, they ve had issues with getting materials in a timely manner. that is a very significant issue for us. so when it says, almost uniformly successful, how would you characterize what you re able to access and get right now, particularly from the fbi? it has been an extraordinarily difficult issue for us for now several years to get prompt, timely access to materials. mr. elkins? i think there s a disconnect. and i think that statement that you just read capsulizes the disconnect. on the one hand, i think wha ....