Comer: NGOs must preserve documents related to USTR’s digital trade rethink

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) on Wednesday asked five civil society groups to preserve communications with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative related to the agency’s decision to rethink its digital trade stance. Comer’s letters to the heads of Public Citizen, the American Economic Liberties Project, the Open Markets Institute, New America and the Center for Digital Democracy come less than a month after the lawmaker requested records on the same issue directly from USTR...