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Iowa's Grassley Demands DOJ Share Russian Investigation Records

(Undated) -- U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), along with Senator Ron Jonson (R-WI) today (Tuesday) called on the Department of Justice to release records pertaining to an investigation into Russian interference, also known as the Crossfire Hurricane records.

Grassley and Johnson maintain DOJ's delayed transparency has interfered with congressional investigators’ review of what the senators say should already be public records. Congressional investigators have been required to view Crossfire Hurricane documents in the department’s secured facilities, and the department has been unable to confirm which records are subject to former President Donald Trump’s declassification directive.

The senators are calling on the department to explain the steps it’s taking to comply with the year-old transparency order and ensure that records aren’t further subjected to unnecessary redactions.

“We remain concerned that over one year from the date then-President Trump directed the Justice Department to declassify certain Crossfire Hurricane records the Justice Department has not only failed to declassify a single page, the Department has failed to identify for Congress records that it knows with certainty to be covered by the declassification directive.,” the senators wrote.

 

…our staff should not have to spend potentially multiple days and countless hours in the Department’s classified facility only to play a guessing game with the Department about what document may or may not be covered by the declassification directive and potentially review records that have already been produced to Congress,” the senators continued.

 

Read the full text of the letter here.

Johnson is the ranking member on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Grassley is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.


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