"Sorry about time limits, but manners and protocol are NOT dispensed with in any of these hearings necessarily!"

So maybe someone should tell the people being questioned that it is bad manners to avoid answering questions by giving ridiculous, off topic, non-answers when they are asked a question. 
"High powered attorneys" aren't constrained by time limits, because they'd never get any answers to anything. 
How about following the "protocol" of answering the question you were asked, not the one you wish you were asked, or mindlessly repeating "I support accountability"?