Patrick Leahy: “Mr. Secretary, we thank you for coming to testify before this subcommittee today.”

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.

We thought that the decision that was made was prudent and long overdue.

in 1988, after speaking with Bobby Muller, a Vietnam veteran who was wounded and later founded the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation--VVAF--to help alleviate the suffering of Vietnamese and Cambodians who were badly injured in the…

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