The department has already laid bare the records of its internal deliberations—and even published portions of interviews revealing its officials’ thoughts and impressions about those records. While the defense has succeeded in making its case for the general legal principle that deliberative materials–including the sorts of materials at issue here—deserve protection even in the face of a Congressional subpoena, it can point to no particular harm that could flow from compliance with this subpoena, for these records, that it did not already bring about itself.
Jackson ordered the Justice Department to turn over documents to the committee by Feb. 2.
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