Who is that? Well, we passed legislation say that the Department of Defense and the rest of the government has to release the information. We have to be safe. We put something in there that the President, if he wanted, could still sit on some of this information. I believed at the time we passed it, it would be almost impossible to say there was something so top secret that was more than 20 years old, say, because some of this information that we get testimony on is over 20 years old. (04:31–04:38)
CLAIM
Asserts that the legislation includes a provision allowing the President to withhold some information.
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