On Wednesday, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer announced that he and the seven Democratic members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs are demanding the files, citing “a century-old and little-known” statute known as the “rule of five.”
Under the rule, executive agencies are, upon the request of five members of the Homeland Security Committee, required to submit “any information requested of it relating to any matter within the jurisdiction of the committee.”
They don’t need any rules to release the files. They can just pull a Pentagon Papers and any one of them could dump it into the public records
Let the Republicans get on the record protecting pedophiles first.
No need, half of them are probably on the list anyway