The decision came in response to Freedom of Information Act requests from American Oversight, a nonprofit that says it relies on FOIA to investigate the Trump administration. Judge Randolph Moss' order came the day before Sessions is due to testify in public before the Senate intelligence committee. The order gave the government until July 12 to produce any documents not subject to a FOIA exemption from the request for the page of Sessions' SF-86 form, a security clearance questionnaire. After that failure to disclose came to light, Sessions defended himself and sent supplemental testimony to the Senate. In response to that report, the DOJ insisted the decision not to list the meetings was above-board.

Source: CNN June 13, 2017 01:07 UTC