(09-30-2019, 07:51 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(09-30-2019, 05:37 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: LOL.  Mikey my boy... just let it go.  You have no idea when it comes to classified information.

Congress wrote the National Security Act of 1947.  They can un-write it.  And with a 2/3 vote of both Houses, they can override a veto, at which point it doesn't matter if the President wants to un-write the Act. They can remove the President or the vice president or any general by the same threshold.  And with a simple majority vote, they can deprive any general who chooses not to cooperate of funding.
It need not come to that.
But start telling the intelligence committees that they don't "need to know" the answers to their questions, and it can come to that.
Committee members get the information they request.  In a secret room ? Yes.  On the understanding they won't divulge the secrets further? Yes.  But they get it.