The push from Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and ranking Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein came in a letter to CIA Director Mike Pompeo on Monday. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Senate Judiciary tells CIA to hand over information related to Russian meddling

The GOP chairman and top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee want the CIA to hand over information related to Russian meddling in the 2016 election that the Senate intelligence committee has already viewed.

The push from Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and ranking Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein came in a letter to CIA Director Mike Pompeo on Monday. While the duo did not specify the nature of the data made available to the Senate intelligence panel for its Russsia investigation, Grassley and Feinstein said the information fell under their committee's jurisdiction too.


"Russian interference in the 2016 election — a matter that implicates federal criminal laws, our electoral processes, and the administration of justice — is one of those circumstances involving matters squarely within the Judiciary Committee's work," Grassley and Feinstein wrote to Pompeo.

"Our committee should have access to these materials under the same terms as the intelligence committee," the duo added.

Feinstein is also a member of the intelligence committee, enabling her to view the information at issue.

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"It seemed to me, when I saw it, that it was relevant to this committee’s oversight, and yet this committee cannot receive it," the California Democrat said.

The Senate's judiciary and intelligence panels are conducting separate inquiries into Russian disruption during the 2016 election and any potential ties to President Donald Trump's campaign.