A Republican senator has responded to Buzzfeed about its report on a letter former President Barack Obama’s office sent in March which revealed that, despite objections over “presidential confidentiality interests,” the Obama administration had agreed to the senator’s request to provide early access to presidential records “related to certain meetings connected to Ukraine.”
A spokesman for Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, told Buzzfeed News on Tuesday that the document request he made in November 2019 was for the purposes of “oversight.” The spokesman also said that the Obama administration’s characterization of his records request as giving “credence to a Russian disinformation campaign” was “unfounded.”
