Why did the NSA refuse to comment on middlemen?

Neelam Mathews
Feb 15, 2013

A question by Times Now addressed to the NSA S. Menon at the Asian Security Conference being held in New Delhi on whether middlemen in arms deals were a security hazard, had Menon refused to "be drawn in." "Maybe one day I will answer your question," he said to the reporter.
Really? Is it that difficult to acknowledge a known fact? Or does the government feel that there is no problem in middlemen, that it has banned through its own decree?