House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff is moving to release dozens of witness transcripts from the panel’s Russia investigation after the nation's spy chief said he would release them to end a two-year delay.
“After more than a year of unnecessary delay, the ODNI has finally concluded its protracted classification review of the Committee’s transcripts, and it also appears the White House has now abandoned its improper insistence on reviewing key transcripts, which the Committee appropriately rejected,” a Schiff spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday. “This process had already taken far too long, most notably because the ODNI improperly held up the declassification review and release of several transcripts at the request of the White House.”
A letter sent by Grenell to Schiff on Tuesday, which was obtained by the Washington Examiner, said that “the ODNI-supervised interagency review of 43 (of the original 53) transcripts was completed in June 2019” and that, “as of today, the interagency review of the remaining transcripts has been completed as well.” Grenell told Schiff that, “pursuant to your guidance, these transcripts have not been shared with the White House.”
Forty-three of the 53 transcripts went through the declassification process and were returned to Schiff over half a year ago, but he had not released them despite promising last fall to make them public quickly. A sticking point with the remaining 10 transcripts had been the desire by the ODNI to allow the White House to review them as part of the declassification process, which Schiff rejected. The ODNI relented, providing the declassified versions of the remaining 10 transcripts this week.
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