Leon Panetta: “Yes. I believe strongly that joining the Convention would assist U.S. efforts to get countries with excessive maritime…”

I don’t think there is any question that we are dealing with classified information.

It just -- it strikes me that what the chairman was trying to do perhaps was to try to send a wake-up call to both the Speaker and his Republican colleagues, that Russia still remains very much a threat to the United States.

Make no mistake about it, that would be an act of war because it would threaten our national security.

Well, it should not have happened. I don’t care what excuses you want to use, it should not have happened.