When asked by Terry Forrest, counsel for AWB executives what the point of sending intelligence to his department when it was never read, Mr Downer conceded that it was "physically impossible" to read it all.
AWB幹部の弁護士のテリー・フォレストに、全く読まれない時に彼の省に情報を送る主旨は何かと尋ねられた時、ダウナー氏はそれを全て読むのは「物理的に不可能」だったと、認めた。