department and it was overseen by the director of legal affairs, john chapman, and the human resources director, daniel cloak. is that your understanding? pardon me, what was the question? i don t understand. is it my understanding that the investigation itself. you have described it, collin miler described it to us. it was carried out by the i.t. department and overseen by the director of legal affairs, john chapman, and the human resources director, personnel director, daniel cloak. is that an accurate description? that is my understanding. can you tell us why john chapman has left the organization? john chapman and the organization decided it was in mutual interest to part ways. and i think one of the pieces here as well is for the company to move forward is for and i think this is important. many of the individuals, even if there is if there s no
evidence of wrongdoing or anything like that, and i think that and no evidence of impropriety, many individuals have chosen that it s time to part ways. i was not involved with the discussions with mr. chapman. so you have no evidence of any complicity to cover up the existence of the file? i do not have that. can you tell us the employment status of daniel cloak? mr. cloak left the company some time ago and i don t know his employment status. he s not in the business. he was the director of human resources for a number of years. not that many actually, i m not sure. but left over a year ago, i think. but i can follow up with you the status. i m just very quickly to the witnesses who came to us. again, in respect to the file that you ve discovered this year, regarding les hinton, when did he first become aware of
to do it. i want to wind up given the time, but i ve got a few more questions. as you ve described it, and as collin miler described it to us, the e-mail investigation was carried out by the i.t. department and it was overseen by the director of legal affairs, john chapman, and the human resources director, daniel cloak. is that your understanding? pardon me, what was the question? i don t understand. is it my understanding that the investigation itself. you have described it, collin miler described it to us. it was carried out by the i.t. department and overseen by the director of legal affairs, john chapman, and the human resources director, personnel director, daniel cloak. is that an accurate description? that is my understanding. can you tell us why john chapman has left the organization? john chapman and the organization decided it was in mutual interest to part ways.
over seen by the director of legal affairs john chapman and the human resources director daniel cloak, is that your understanding? what was the question? the investigation itself. you described it, and others described it to us, it was carried out by the it department and over seen by the director of legal affairs, john chapman, and the human resources personnel director daniel cloak h is that an accurate description? that is my understanding. can you tell us why john chapman has left the organization? john chapman and the organization decided it was, you know, in mutual interest to part ways, and i think you know, i think one of the pieces here as well is for the company to move forward, and is for and i think this is important, you know, many of the individuals, even if there is no if there is no evidence of wrongdoing, or
i think maybe that s a question, again, for james, but there was certainly when we examined it reexamined that, we found things which we immediately went to counsel with to get advice on how to present it to the police. in their written response to this committee s questions, are you aware that news international stated that both john chapman and daniel cloak reviewed these e-mails before forwarding them to the firm? no. so nobody in the company told you that two of your executives had reviewed the e-mails i was under the understanding that everything had been sent to them. okay. you are aware that lord mcdonald