DoJ blocking National Archives from info re: 15 boxes of stolen documents.

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Unfortunately, this also prevents J6 committee from access to information, Rep. Maloney has stated.

CNN
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The Justice Department has begun investigating the handling 15 boxes of White House records, including classified information, taken to Mar-a-Lago after former President Donald Trump left office, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.

This comes as the Justice Department is blocking the National Archives from sharing details on the boxes with Congress, which has launched its own investigation.

In a letter that the House Oversight Committee disclosed on Thursday, Archives General Counsel Gary Stern said the agency was unable to respond to the panel’s request for more information, based on the Archives’ “consultation” with the Justice Department.

After receiving the March 28 letter from the National Archives, also known as NARA, House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat from New York, reached out to Attorney General Merrick Garland requesting additional information as to why the Justice Department is preventing the Archives from cooperating with the panel.

“I write today because the Department of Justice is preventing NARA from cooperating with the Committee’s request, which is interfering with the Committee’s investigation,” she wrote in a letter dated Thursday. “By blocking NARA from producing the documents requested by the Committee, the Department is obstructing the Committee’s investigation.”

Maloney says that the committee “does not wish to interfere in any manner with any potential or ongoing investigation by the Department of Justice.”

However, she says the committee has not received any explanation for why the Justice Department is preventing the Archives from providing information to the committee, which is investigating potential violations of the Presidential Records Act by Trump.

[MerryHolidays]

1. Something's up

Those boxes must contain something really interesting...pure speculation, of course, but this is a bit odd.

[Zorro]

2. Most likely highly classified SAP/SAR stuff

Not the kind of material the average National Archives staff person would be able to access.

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3. a little scary

At what point does the national security and defense assessment happen?

And who would assess that? State Dept?

Somebody needs to know what else is missing -- what he potentially gave away/sold, etc.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. This is so much fucking bullshit.

“By blocking NARA from producing the documents requested by the Committee, the Department is obstructing the Committee’s investigation.”

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6. yes, that is the takeaway.

Interesting how things always seem to work in Trump's slippery efforts to elude accountability.

[SmallFry]

5. Your headline is inaccurate as I read it.

Original headline.

Justice Department investigating handling of White House records taken to Mar-a-Lago after Trump left office

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/07/politics/justice-department-national-archives-mar-a-lago-boxes/index.html

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7. letter from Congress here

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Link to tweet

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[Emile]

8. DOJ blocking justice, wow!