WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Wednesday the Justice Department is making available to leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee "as early as today" sensitive documents they demanded from the secret court that prompted the government's reversal on its warrantless surveillance program.

Gonzales told reporters the judge's orders and related documents from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court are being provided to committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, and ranking Republican Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania, who have angrily demanded access to the documents.

For months the two lawmakers, who have oversight over the Justice Department, have been frustrated by Gonzales and other department officials who have said that, because of the sensitivity of the National Security Agency surveillance program, they would brief only the leaders of the intelligence committees about it. The program was aimed at international communications involving suspected terrorists.

Two weeks ago the Justice Department said a secret new judicial order from the FISA court had made it possible for the administration to drop its warrantless surveillance, and to begin getting the court's approval for eavesdropping requests of suspected terrorists.

At a contentious hearing the following day, Gonzales indicated he would consider making the documents available to them.

"We'd obviously be concerned public disclosure may jeopardize the national security of our country," he said.

The documents would not be made public in any form, he said.

"We're talking about highly classified discussions about highly classified actions of the United States government," Gonzales told reporters. Spokesmen for Leahy and Specter had no immediate comment, although Leahy's office indicated they were likely to comment later Wednesday.