DOJ will have to wait for Jan. 6 panel's final report to access transcripts

Jan. 6 committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said the Justice Department (DOJ) will have to wait for the panel’s final report to review transcripts of its interviews with more than 1,000 witnesses, rebuffing an agency request lingering since May.

The decision means DOJ will, like the public, have to wait until late December to access depositions and evidence, with the agency maintaining since this summer that their withholding has complicated its own Jan. 6 investigation.