The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday stonewalled a request from the House Judiciary Committee to provide more information about the special counsel investigation into President Joe Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, saying that doing so would risk compromising the entire probe.
The response came two weeks after Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who chairs the Republican-majority House panel, demanded in a letter that the DOJ hand over all documents and communications surrounding Biden’s case, including those related to the appointment of a special counsel.
Jordan’s letter asked for “non-public information that is central to the ongoing Special Counsel investigation,” the DOJ said, noting that it is the department’s “longstanding policy” to “maintain the confidentiality of such information regarding open matters.”…