It appears that Attorney General Bill Barr and the Department of Justice have caved, at least somewhat, to pressure from Democrats.

California Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, made the announcement on Wednesday.

“So late last night the department of justice agreed to begin a rolling production of documents to our committee starting with initial set of 12 categories of documents we had requested that contain intelligence and counterintelligence information that was alluded to in the report.

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“These are part of the underlying documents that we’ve been seeing. So that production should begin this week.

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“We should have the full 12 sets of documents by the end of next week. This does not obviate the need for the subpoena.

“We’re going to keep that in force until we get all the documents that we’re seeking, but that production is going to start now and we hope that it will continue by the department.

“This I should also mention, however, is no substitute in any way, shape or form for the appearance of Bob Mueller before our committee and the judiciary Committee.

“It’s no substitute for the appearance of Don McGhan and the other witnesses that have been subpoenaed to come into committee, but we are pleased that we are finally going to start receiving documents that we are entitled to from the department of justice,” he said.

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“What do you plant to do with this counterintelligence information that you are going to get from the department?” a reporter asked.

“Well, it will be part of our investigation. The entire FBI probe began as a counterintelligence investigation.

“We have yet to determine what that investigation found in terms of counterintelligence findings or even whether it is ongoing.

“But those are issues that potentially could compromise our national security, so our first priority is to get to the bottom of what the counterintelligence has to show, whether there are any steps that our committee or the Congress needs to take to protect the country and that’s the first use that we will put it to, but this is part of our continuing investigation into Russia’s interference,” he said.

In exchange for these documents the House decided to cancel its meeting on Wednesday to take enforcement against Barr.

Adam Schiff said the committee’s subpoena will remain in place and will be enforced if the DOJ “fails to comply” fully with the document request. https://t.co/klQvtAojkJ — The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) May 22, 2019

Agreement reached to turn over Mueller documents, Adam Schiff says https://t.co/Q5Yqh254d7 — Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) May 22, 2019

NEW: House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff cancels “enforcement” meeting after Justice Department offers to share Mueller documents https://t.co/0byVxxKOVi pic.twitter.com/UOgdCwgMJX — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 22, 2019

Adam Schiff: DoJ Has Agreed to Hand Over [SOME] Mueller Report Documents Keep up the pressure. Subpoena. Hold folks in contempt of Congress. Act like the checks and balances we need you to be. You have our support! https://t.co/B6mnAYyFfv — Bryan Harnsberger, Psy.D (@PSYCH_HYPE) May 22, 2019