Overview

• House Oversight Chair James Comer said the Justice Department will start producing investigative materials on Friday following his early August demand.
• The department will redact victim identities and child‑sex‑abuse content, and it cautions the volume of records means production will take time.
• U.S. District Judge Richard Berman denied the government’s request to unseal roughly 70 pages of grand‑jury transcripts, finding no special circumstances to lift secrecy.
• Berman noted the government holds about 100,000 pages of investigative files and warned that unsealing could endanger the privacy and safety of more than 1,000 victims.
• The developments follow a summer shift after DOJ and FBI halted broader public releases, as House Republicans issued sweeping subpoenas, including to Bill and Hillary Clinton, and as President Trump faced pressure for retreating from a pledge to release all FBI files.