The Justice Department still has “a few more outstanding documents” to hand over to Congress, despite a House-passed resolution that demanded the agency do so by Friday, according to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes.
During an interview with Fox News, the California Republican said expects more records to be submitted Monday.
“As always, we have to pound and pound and pound to get information from DOJ and FBI. They did give us a lot more information last week, we’re expecting more information on Monday,” Nunes told Jeanine Pirro on her Saturday evening Fox News show.
Nunes, along with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., have clashed with the DOJ for months in regards to documents they requested related to the FBI’s investigations into both Hillary Clinton’s private email and Russia. Further escalating the feud stemming from subpoenas issued from the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees, the GOP-led House passed a resolution late last month demanding that DOJ hand over the documents by Friday.
In a letter to Goodlatte and Nunes on Friday, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd said that the DOJ and FBI “believe that they have now substantially complied with” the sizable documents requests from the two panels. “[A]ny residual or ongoing production of the materials will be expeditiously completed in coordination with staff members from the appropriate committees,” wrote Boyd in the letter obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Nunes explained on Saturday that he has been zeroing in on the genesis of the Russia investigation in the summer of 2016, but the DOJ has “slowly complied” providing the answers his committee has sought in the name of oversight.
While the resolution passed last month was unbinding, Nunes and fellow Republicans, including Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., have threatened to hold Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in contempt of Congress, or even to impeach him, if their document demands are not met.
