Phillips stated: “AARO were not a cabinet-level office.

Phillips stated: “AARO were not a cabinet-level office. We don't have the authority to classify. We have to go by classification guides - derivative classifiers. So they would use the classification guides, say for the Department of Defence or the Director of National Intelligence or CIA. But that's how we classify - it's called derivative classification. And he's correct. “Someone would come in, and we'd look at it. If we thought it was going to compromise sensitive government capabilities s...