The Department of Justice is expected to allow Congress access to the so-called “Comey memos” sometime Thursday, a Justice Department official told the Washington Examiner.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said in a letter to Justice Department officials earlier this week that there is “no legal basis for withholding these materials from Congress.”
Comey, who was fired by President Trump last May, said in congressional testimony that he kept memos memorializing conversations with the president.
The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee said late Wednesday that Goodlatte was poised to subpoena the Justice Department for the memos.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., warned such a move puts Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in jeopardy of being placed in contempt of Congress and the special counsel investigation of being shut down prematurely.
A spokesperson for Goodlatte did not immediately return the Washington Examiner‘s request for comment.
