They weren’t surprised. Predictable - run out the clock. If the President has the UNREDACTED versions as we’ve been told, why doesn’t he release them himself?
Taken by surprise, what BS. Trump knows these sonsa bitches can’t be trusted why task them with the release?
That is Plan B, to be executed when it is obvious the agencies involved are intentionally slow-walking the declassification process.
It should be obvious 24 to 48 hours after the order went out.