"Negotiations now, after 10 months, are at an impasse and our patience has been exhausted," Schiff says.
The White House has"hijacked" transcripts from the House Intelligence Committee's Republican-led Russia investigation, delaying their release for months, Chairman Adam Schiff told colleagues in a closed-door meeting last week.
"The White House has, in a sense, hijacked what should have been an uncontroversial straightforward review of congressional transcripts to identify and redact any classified information, and attempted to expand it into an unsolicited after-the-fact review for information purportedly protected by executive privilege,” Schiff said.
Schiff still intends to release the bulk of the Russia transcripts in the near future. He said ODNI has returned 43 of the 53 transcripts to the committee with classified information redacted. Two others, which the White House has sought to review, can be released because they've been determined to include no classified information, so the committee can release its own copy, Schiff said. But the remaining eight, he said, have been held"hostage.
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