Jan. 6 Committee Shelves Requests for Hundreds of Trump Records

[choie]

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has agreed to delay or withdraw demands for hundreds of Trump White House records at the request of the Biden administration, out of concern that releasing some of the documents could compromise national security.

The deal, made public on Tuesday, does not represent a major policy shift for the administration: President Biden still rejects former President Donald J. Trump’s claim that all internal White House documents pertaining to the riot be withheld on the grounds of executive privilege.

The White House counsel, Dana A. Remus, has been negotiating in recent weeks with the House committee to set aside requests for all or part of 511 documents her staff has deemed sensitive, unrelated to the probe or potentially compromising to the long-term prerogatives of the presidency.

The committee agreed to withdraw or defer its requests for documents that “do not appear to bear on the White House’s preparations for or response to the events of Jan. 6, or on efforts to overturn the election or otherwise obstruct the peaceful transfer of power,” wrote Jonathan C. Su, the White House deputy counsel, in an outline of the agreement between the committee and the administration drafted on Dec. 16.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/28/us/politics/trump-jan-6.html

[BlueJac]

1. Just fucking fantastic...

The typical response to all our major problems in this country! We won't have to worry about it much longer
We are watching the end of our Democracy in slow motion. Trump wins again. Basically I have had it with our weakness in time of emergency. Where did all the Patriots go?

[Alexander Of Assyria]

2. Read article again please. Nothing like what u imply, it's click bait headline, ok?

[malaise]

8. THIS

Is the truth

[Pacifist Patriot]

3. Shame on NYT for such a clickbaity headline.

Committee Agrees to Withdraw Request for Documents
Irrelevant to Their Investigation. There, fixed it for you.

[Trueblue Texan]

4. and that clause provides cover against SCOTUS excuses...

...for shielding tfg.

[Fullduplexxx]

7. Why would the committee ask for documents that are irrelevant to their investigation

[Pacifist Patriot]

9. Their initial request was deemed too broad and included documents unrelated.

This is a dog bites man story, not a man bites dog.

[kentuck]

5. I think it was meant to shut down Trump's lawyers before the Supreme Court.

They either had to argue "executive privilege" for national security reasons or "executive privilege" for everything. They had a better chance with the former.

[Fullduplexxx]

6. The committee agreed to withdraw or defer its requests for documents that "do not appear to bear on

The committee agreed to withdraw or defer its requests for documents that “do not appear to bear on the White House’s preparations for or response to the events of Jan. 6, or on efforts to overturn the election or otherwise obstruct the peaceful transfer of power,”

[Alexander Of Assyria]

10. But headline says ... shelved...must be bad, right? But it isn't at all.

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