Oh Meadows was president?
The DOJ was right, it did lead to a lawsuit. Which seems to be scaring the shit out of the DOJ.
From Just the News: The conservative watchdog Judicial Watch has sued the Justice Department to compel the release of “smoking gun” documents former President Donald Trump declassified and ordered release that detail misconduct in the FBI’s discredited Russia collusion investigation. The Freedom...
www.judicialwatch.org
That was the process the president chose to use that time.
Given the DOJ's insurrection by refusing the orders of the president in a matter in which the Constitution gives him sole authority, I don't blame him for not going through all that paperwork the next time.