The White House on Thursday declined to get in the middle of a fight over whether the FBI should release documents related to investigations into possible criminal behavior by financial institutions that led to the housing and economic crisis in late 2007.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has called for the release of those papers, and wrote FBI Director James Comey to ask about those investigations, none of which led to criminal charges against businesses or individuals.

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