 The D.A.and state police had expressed concerns of their own that the NTSB might release information that could compromise the criminal investigation, and that federal investigators might be called as witnesses in any criminal trial.In mid-January the NTSB and Mallery's office reached an agreement under which the board's investigators would be recalled from their furlough due to the government shutdown and allowed to examine the Excursion, then stored in a tent behind Troop G headquarters in Colonie, north of Albany.