Attorney General Eric Holder has required the Department of Justice’s official watchdog to get permission for sensitive documents in several recent investigations, which hinders the investigator’s independence, delays reports and raises legal snags, Inspector General Michael Horowitz told a Senate panel.
During the DOJ IG’s investigations of Fast and Furious and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the department required Horowitz to go through Holder to get crucial information on wiretaps and a grand jury report.
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