The ongoing dispute over whether inspectors general need full access to all
agency documents took a new turn on Wednesday after the Justice Department
wrote to lawmakers proposing a narrow change in current law that would
preserve some agencies’ powers to withhold specified documents relating to
national security, grand jury testimony and credit reporting.

Congress has been holding hearings and moving a bill to strengthen watchdog
powers in the wake of controversies at agencies such as the FBI where
managers declined to turn over documents they deemed confidential under
other statutes—a stance backed by Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel.

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