I once told the Director of the CIA, William Casey, when he came up about the third time in 2 weeks to the Congress to say, 'I know I was supposed to have told you about' whatever the issue was, 'and now that it has been in the press, I want to tell you more about it.'
Leahy discusses frustrations with CIA's transparency and information sharing.
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