DOJ agrees to share some Mueller documents with Democrats
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The Justice Department has agreed to share some documents from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation with House Intelligence Committee Democrats — but warned that their cooperation would grind to a halt should the panel move to hold Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt.
The agreement comes amid negotiations between committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and the DOJ for the full Mueller report and underlying evidence and documents from the probe — and effectively hits pause on Schiff’s efforts to enforce a subpoena against the DOJ.
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“The Department of Justice has already begun the process of identifying, locating, and reviewing the materials potentially responsive to the categories of documents [requested by the Committee],” the Justice Department said in a statement Tuesday, warning that it is a “process that will not continue should the Committee take the unnecessary and unproductive step of moving to hold the Attorney General in contempt.”
Schiff appeared to accept the Justice Department’s response while maintaining that their subpoena remains in effect.
“DOJ has accepted our offer, and will begin turning over to the Committee twelve categories of counterintelligence and foreign intelligence materials beginning this week. Our subpoena will remain in effect, and be enforced should DOJ fail to comply with the full document request,” Schiff tweeted Wednesday.
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