"For one thing, it would give us a more complete picture of what's going on. We've heard the song and dance from one side -- we should get the other."

Since they weren't going to immediately blow up the government or anything.

"The government isn't going to give us information about their weaknesses, about disharmonious elements of their society, about constraints of time or resources, or about just how desperate their situation is... except in the most general, glossed over sense. We can guess at what the truth really is, or we can ask the people who have taken issue with them, and glean the truth about both from the lies of the other."