The commission had little appreciation of how much information would be subject to national security confidentiality claims,

There will be a discussion about classified information and the proper handling of classified national security information, how that material is classified, by whom, for how long, who has access to it, how the material is declassified, the badges that people wear to show their security clearances, and so forth, ... The briefings discuss the security precautions that are in place for handling classified information such as the use of safes or the use of specific locations to view classified information like the Situation Room here at the White House.

There was no national secrets, no national security secrets. There were no defense secrets or confidential information that was provided to anyone on the Cuban side of the equation.

I think you're going to see a heavy concentration in the months ahead on national security items and making sure that terrorism doesn't revisit American shores.

The Xerox machine is one of the biggest threats to national security ever devised.

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.