NEW: House Intel Cmte. postpones a meeting to enforce a subpoena after the Justice Dept. agreed to hand over a cache of documents related to the Mueller report.
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee has postponed a meeting to enforce a subpoena against the Justice Department after the department agreed to hand over a cache of documents related to special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
California Rep. Adam Schiff said the department"will begin turning over to the committee twelve categories of counterintelligence and foreign intelligence materials as part of an initial rolling production." On Tuesday, the department offered to provide documents if the committee agreed not to enforce the subpoena. Schiff had said the panel would take"enforcement action" but had not specified if that would be contempt of Congress or some other sort of action.
The agreement is a rare detente in escalating tensions between Congress and President Donald Trump's administration related to oversight matters.
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