Thomas Massey

And so that's an interesting question, whether we do or not.

But I do think that the judge is empowered to opine, and even to appoint a special master on his own, on whether the DOJ is actually following the law.

Our problem is they've sent a letter to Congress saying, we're gonna ignore parts of your law because we think prior law supersedes it.

But that's not the way this works.

When Congress passes a new law, it supersedes the old law.

So some of the things that they're citing in order to justify their redactions, they're saying, well, the Privacy Act

It says that we have to protect the privacy of individuals, but our bill specifically says you can't redact material to prevent embarrassment and other things.

And then the other thing that they're redacting for is they're saying, well, the FOIA standards, which is Freedom of Information Act standards, allow us to redact to protect our internal deliberations.

here's the problem.

Our bill is not a FOIA request.

Our bill is a law that the president himself signed.

And the other thing is, we say specifically in our bill, you have to release internal communications involving decisions about whether to indict or not.

And so they're way off on their legal reasoning.

The thing is,

It's might makes right.

They're doing this.

They're disobeying the law because I think they're trying to test and see if there's any way it can be enforced.

And so we're doing the most polite thing possible.

We're just asking a judge to oversee this.

And then we could ratchet that up as we go along.