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Gratuitously I am going to add a final note,
which is that I think that it is your job, in fact, to
explore and to try to solve the structural problem and to
make a very explicit recommendation about what the
structure should be and I hope you will retain really solid
experts who understand the political realities to give you
advice on this to help you devise a structure that will
work, to find the proper niche, to find the proper reach,
authority, jurisdiction, the proper budgetary protection,
the right clout to get action when needed.
I will tell you that from my experience on the
Commission on Research Integrity, which I would call mixed,
I would say that as you work it is extraordinarily
important to think about to whom your report is submitted.
Who receives your report and how exactly will it get
implemented?
What will be done with it?
If you make sort of a generic recommendation
somebody should think about this and improve the structure
you could be looking another two, four, five, six, ten
years, never for actually making a difference in how this
works. I cannot believe that this number of really busy,
really expert people should put in that kind of effort for
that kind of result.