William Burck, a lawyer charged by former President George W. Bush with reviewing the documents housed in the presidential library, disclosed the exemptions i n a letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley on Friday . Burck explained that, in all, he received just under 664,000 pages of documents and that Bush had directed him to "proceed expeditiously" and "err as much as appropriate on the side of transparency and disclosure." Burck said he has given the committee "every reviewable" document that he received except those that fell into exemptions that included "presidential records protected by constitutional privilege." Democratic senators argue that Grassley is refusing to produce documents from Kavanaugh's years serving as staff secretary in the White House from 2003 to 2006. Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer called the decision to withhold the documents a "Friday night document massacre."

Source: CNN September 01, 2018 21:02 UTC