Seventy percent of birth defects could be prevented, treated or ameliorated if the recommendations in this report are adopted.

The purpose of this report is to reveal the harsh and hidden effects of birth defects worldwide.

I wish ... that the administration would agree to declassify a lot more of the report. Seventy percent -- or whatever the figure is -- is not enough. Probably you could go and declassify 90, 95 percent of it without any harm at all to national security. That would be my considered judgment.

Seventy percent of what's in there is not true.

In general, they are lucky to get any of their recommendations adopted. A lot of commissions have filed reports, and no one pays attention. By the time they have done their work, attention has moved onto something else - which is, of course, the reason why presidents create commissions.

Now that the ... report has been issued, we'll take time to carefully analyze the report recommendations.