Eleanor Norton actually said...

"Can you give us any assurance that those guidelines will in fact not leave customer agency personnel, expert in agency matters, as decision makers for the security of Federal assets?"

"I appreciate that you have set aside particularly that contract for small businesses and then had them compete for this small business contract in keeping with Federal regulations, so that is good."

"It is very disturbing to think that there would be people at the table who had no expertise deciding something."

"What bothers me most of all is that they would have anything but the kind of role that it seems to me they should have."