Now here’s where it gets good. Under questioning from Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL), Mueller admitted that he took and kept notes after speaking with John Ashcroft following the hospital-room showdown between Comey, Gonzales and Card.
Mueller sought legal review over the notes he took, he told Davis:
Davis: Who have you shared them with, prior to today?Mueller: My counsel.
Davis: Counsel…?
Mueller: Office of the General Counsel.
Davis: OK. Is that the only individual, the Office of the General Counsel?
Mueller: Well, there may have been people in my immediate staff.
Davis wants the House Judiciary Committee to have access to Mueller’s notes, but Mueller seemed to resist turning them over. Without specifying much, Mueller said he kept notes on the incident because it was “out of the ordinary.” Davis recommended that Chairman John Conyers (D-MI), and the committee’s Senate counterpart, “make a formal inquiry to obtain those notes.”