Patrick Leahy: “Would you be horribly upset if we did as we did in the last budget to restore the cuts?”

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.

On February 23rd of this year, Senators Schumer and Coburn and I wrote you a letter commending your decision to sever ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR.

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.

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