There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.

Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

I'm going to help the committee regardless of any position I have. I will volunteer to be a summer intern.

No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.

While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts.

Congress is supposed to provide oversight, the voters are supposed to provide oversight. And you [the media] were supposed to provide oversight. That's why you have special liberties and that's why you have special protections.