Patrick Leahy: “I'm sorry that truth-tellers in the administration, like General Shinseki and Lawrence Lindsey, were hounded out of…”

Congress was the original classification authority (OCA). It let that power essentially slip away to the Executive Branch.

Do not turn your material, do not turn your reports over to the Executive Branch and let them tell you what is or is not classified.

If the Senate doesn`t repair itself we are in deep trouble in this country.

People in the Trump administration who know nothing and care less about these programs are arbitrarily jeopardizing relations with a strategic partner in one of the most challenging regions of the world.