Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

I think if the person is an appointee of the chief judge of the Court or the Chief Justice of the United States, they risk becoming the pet ...

So as far as you are concerned, nothing was withheld from you.

The gap is actually on your end in terms of having the capacity to look into the breadth of various programs.

It is a worrisome question to me, and I confess I do not have an answer to it in mind myself.