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For Immediate Release
June 26, 2008 |
Contact: Jonathan Godfrey
Melanie Roussell
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(Washington, DC)- Upon hearing from the Government Accountability Office that the Justice Department was not cooperating with its investigation of the Civil Rights Division, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Subcommittee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and Rep. Melvin Watt (D-NC) sent a letter today urging the department to increase its transparency. "We have also received reports that DOJ officials have removed key documents from files, claiming that GAO does not have a right to access predecisional or deliberative information that sets forth the division's rationale on whether or not to pursue a case. We are troubled by the lack of transparency and refusal of the department to cooperate fully with GAO’s investigation," the members wrote.
The full text of the letter is here.
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