The two men planned to give an FBI file to a journalist.
The paper said that they rushed to get a set of redactions on the file.
The plan was scrapped because DOJ officials were against it.
According to The New York Times, in the final days of his presidency, Donald Trump approved MarkMeadows' plan to get a set of redactions approved on a file of FBI information so that it could be declassified.
The binder containing information about the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation was declassified according to The Times.
The code name for the FBI investigation into the alleged links between Russian officials and Trump associates was called Crossfire Hurricane.
The FBI's methods were described in the binder. It contained a series of text messages between two former FBI officials who had been critical of Trump. A description of Trump as an "idiot" was one of the hundreds of messages sent in the lead up to the election.
According to The Times, Meadows said that Trump wanted the messages to go public.
Trump did not reply immediately.
Three days before the end of his presidency, a set of redactions was agreed upon, and the rest of the binder was declassified.
According to people familiar with the plan, Meadows was going to give the binder to a conservative journalist. It is not known who the journalist was or which outlet they were working for.
Insider asked for comment from Meadows, but he did not reply immediately.
The plan to give over the binder was scrapped after the Justice Department warned that the dissemination of the text messages between Strzok and Page could violate privacy laws.
In The New York Times, there is a story about how Trump and his associates handled documents in the last days of his presidency.
The FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago and the Justice Department's investigation into whether he broke any laws have focused attention on Trump's handling of documents.
Business Insider has an article on it.
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