anchor: In this regard, during hearings that predated the 1980 Act, the Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel testified, a[T]he long and the short of it is that virtually every piece of information that was requested was eventually provided and it was provided because the Attorney General said this is what we think the law requires.
positive: The Attorney General thought the law required all information be provided.
negative: The Act was put in place in 2001.