The Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the Department of Justice, responsible for resolving disputes between federal government agencies, has found differently.
It also could be that releasing an OLC opinion might be impossible because that opinion might have information in it that simply could not be redacted without compromising classified information.
It could be that the administration wanted to circulate a backgrounder for government officials and they recognized that circulating an OLC opinion could be risky because such an opinion might leak.
And particularly, can you address two nominees -- Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board, and Dawn Johnson to OLC -- who now seem to lack the 60 votes needed to cut off cloture?