The lawmakers would be protected by the House's speech and debate clause if they were to read them on the floor, providing them with immunity from civil or criminal liability. Massie told reporters that one of the men is "pretty high up" in a foreign government, and another is a prominent individual. The lawmakers didn't elaborate on what they meant or specify the conduct at issue.
The limited release violates the law, which required all files to be released yesterday. Instead, there were a whole bunch of Bill Clinton photos, the document reflecting Maria Farmer's complaint from 1996, that went ignored for years, and redacted grand jury transcripts that clearly violate the law. The government did not release the proposed indictment and prosecution memo for the indictment that should have been filed in 2007; that may be sealed as deliberative.
