Why you didn't get to see Jack Smith's Volume ll.
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The ranking members would be Dick Durbin and Jamie Raskin.
From Judge Cannon in the documents case.........
"Never before has the Department of Justice, prior to the conclusion of criminal proceedings
against a defendant—and absent a litigation-specific reason as appropriate in the case itself—
sought to disclose outside the Department a report prepared by a Special Counsel containing substantive and voluminous case information. Until now. According to the Department, this in camera disclosure to four members of Congress is necessary right now—before the conclusion of criminal proceedings—because Attorney General Garland has “limited time” left in his tenure as the head of the Department and wishes “to comply with the historical practice of all Special Counsel,” and also because there is “legislative interest in information about Special Counsel investigations, in order to consider possible legislative reforms regarding the use of special counsels”
"These statements do not reflect well on the Department. There is no
“historical practice” of providing Special Counsel reports to Congress, even on a limited basis,
pending conclusion of criminal proceedings. In fact, there is not one instance of this happening until now [see Tr. 21, 26]
"To the contrary, some of the same members to whom the Department wishes to present Volume II have urged Attorney General Garland to release Volume II to the public immediately, even if doing so requires dismissal of the charges as to Defendants Nauta and De Oliveira. Supra n.10. In short, the Department offers no valid justification for the purportedly urgent desire to release to members of Congress case information in an ongoing criminal proceeding."
"Prosecutors play a special role in our criminal justice system and are entrusted and expected to do justice.........the Department of Justice’s position on Defendants’ Emergency Motion as to Volume II has not been faithful to that obligation."