Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed a U.S. attorney from Chicago to supervise the Department of Justice (DOJ) compliance with House Judicial Committee subpoenas for documents on the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server and alleged surveillance abuses during the 2016 election.

Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray tapped U.S. Attorney John Lausch of the Northern District of Illinois to oversee the DOJ’s efforts to turn over thousands of documents to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

The committee’s chairman, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), subpoenaed 1.2 million DOJ documents in March on DOJ’s probe of Clinton’s use of a private email server to conduct official business as the country’s chief diplomat. At the time he issued the subpoena, Goodlatte said he had only received approximately 3,000 of the documents requested.

“Mr. Lausch, who has experience in the department and in private practice, will ensure that production moves at an acceptable pace and that any redactions are necessary and consistent under the relevant laws and regulations,” Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said in a statement Monday,” noting that Lausch operates “outside of D.C. and independent of the FBI hierarchy.”

Goodlatte issued his subpoena alongside House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.). Gowdy appeared on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” to discuss DOJ’s slow-walking, saying that he could not comprehend why the DOJ’s inspector general has “a million” pages of these documents while Congress only has “a fraction of that.”

“I cannot help them explain a million documents to the inspector general and a fraction of that to the entity who created and funds the FBI,” Gowdy said. “So, if Congress is entitled to this information, we shouldn’t get it in thousand-page increments … The inspector general has a million pages.”

Gowdy added that he wants “to be able to support the FBI and DOJ, but the world’s premier law enforcement agency can’t seem to operate a copying machine. That’s inexplicable.”

President Donald Trump took to Twitter over the weekend to criticize DOJ and the FBI for its “stalling,” wondering “what is going on” and if they have something “to hide” from Congress.

“Lawmakers of the House Judiciary Committee are angrily accusing the Department of Justice of missing the Thursday Deadline for turning over UNREDACTED Documents relating to FISA abuse, FBI, Comey, Lynch, McCabe, Clinton Emails and much more. Slow walking — what is going on? BAD!” Trump tweeted Saturday.

“What does the Department of Justice and FBI have to hide? Why aren’t they giving the strongly requested documents (unredacted) to the HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE? Stalling, but for what reason? Not looking good!” Trump added.

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House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) told Politico on Monday that, although DOJ’s “move to put a U.S. attorney in charge of documents production certainly is welcomed,” it still is “a small gesture that is a little too late.”

“This outsourcing of the decision-making will NOT distance the attorney general and the deputy attorney general from the legitimate criticism that they are obstructing our oversight responsibilities,” Meadows said. “Patience ran out last week after a fourth appeal to expedite the process was met with a yawn.”

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Meadows noted in a tweet last Thursday that it was the deadline Congress set for the DOJ and FBI to turn over the subpoenaed documents.

“The deadline for the subpoena issued by Chairman Goodlatte was today at noon. We got no documents from the Department of Justice. Just a phone call,” Meadows tweeted. “This is unacceptable — it’s time to stop the games. Turn over the documents to Congress and allow us to conduct oversight.”

Flores said that “the attorney general and FBI director understand the concerns of members of Congress and the president about the pace of production and level of redactions in the documents already received by the committee.”

“They agree that the Department and the FBI should accommodate the committee’s request in a timely fashion and in the fullest manner consistent with the department’s law enforcement and national security responsibilities,” Flores said, noting that DOJ planned to deliver 3,600 pages of documents on Monday to the House.

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