The House Intelligence Committee has postponed a potential vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress
, citing efforts by the Justice Department to comply with their demand for access to special counsel Robert Mueller’s files.
“The Department of Justice has accepted our offer of a first step towards compliance with our subpoena, and this week will begin turning over to the Committee twelve categories of counterintelligence and foreign intelligence materials as part of an initial rolling production,” committee chairman Adam Schiff said in a statement Wednesday. “That initial production should be completed by the end of next week.”The cooperation puts on hold what could have been a second contempt vote against Barr.
Schiff has sought several categories of information contained in Mueller’s evidence that pertain to the Intelligence Committee’s jurisdiction over counterintelligence and national security matters. He emphasized that the subpoena he issued for the documents could be enforced at any time if he feels the Justice Department falls short of its cooperation.
The rare breakthrough cuts against an increasingly confrontational relationship between the Democratic House and the Trump administration. President Donald Trump has worked to block witnesses and documents from reaching the Judiciary Committee, which is investigating potential obstruction of justice and abuses of power by Trump.
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