The agency said the new information “significantly undermine[d]” its indictment and blamed the Interior Department for failing to turn it over at first. A damage assessment conducted on the Reflecting Pool and submitted as evidence in Hearn’s case similarly showed the pool liner was failing before his arrest. Raskin also asked the Justice Department to allow two witnesses named in grand jury materials to sit for transcribed interviews with members of Congress. “Intentional damage done to the Reflecting Pool is no different than defacing any one of our national monuments,” said the interior secretary. The Trump administration last month again drained the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as crews conduct repairs on the damaged liner.