Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents.

And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.

The Department of Justice is a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to make an informed decision about John Roberts' qualifications.

There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.