U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry will not turn over documents to congressional
Democrats who had subpoenaed them over his role in
Ukraine as part of their impeachment probe into President
Donald Trump, a department official said in a letter on Friday.
Three U.S. House of Representatives committees subpoenaed Perry on Oct. 10 for any role he played in Trump's push to pressure Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate his political rival, former
Democratic Vice President
Joe Biden and his son.
In a letter to the three committees, Melissa Burnison, an assistant energy secretary, wrote that the impeachment inquiry had not been properly authorized.