Reading Room Document
Assertion of Executive Privilege With Respect to Prosecutorial Documents
Executive privilege may properly be asserted in response to a congressional subpoena seeking prosecutorial decisionmaking documents of the Department of Justice. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/19101/download.
The OLC's Opinions
Opinions published by the OLC, including those released in response to our FOIA lawsuit