The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly agreed to share some of its most highly classified information related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation with Republican congressional leaders.
The White House negotiated the hard-won deal with intelligence and law enforcement officials on Monday, according to the New York Times.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement following the meeting that Chief of Staff John Kelly would “immediately set up a meeting with the FBI, DOJ, and DNI together with congressional leaders to review highly classified and other information they have requested,” the Guardian reported.
The agreement comes after lawmakers fought for months to get the DOJ to release some of its most sensitive files, with Republican Representative Devin Nunes threatening to hold Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in contempt of Congress over his refusal to release information.
In a letter obtained by CNN, the DOJ told Nunes earlier this month that such a release could “risk severe consequences, including the potential loss of human lives, damage to relationships with valued international partners, compromise of ongoing criminal investigations and interference with intelligence activities.”
Now, however, the DOJ has agreed to release some of those documents, with the disclosure expected to be made sometime before the end of the week, the Times reported.
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