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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJudge orders DOJ to publish info redacted as privileged from Mueller report
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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/518981-judge-orders-doj-to-publish-info-redacted-as-privileged-from-mueller
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to publish information redacted from the Mueller report that had been designated as privileged.
District Judge Reggie Walton said the Trump administration had failed to justify certain redactions from the report on the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The specific redactions he took issue with cover the decisionmaking process within former special counsel Robert Mueller's team over whether to charge certain people with crimes during the probe.
"Based on the Courts review of the unredacted version of the Mueller Report, the Court concludes that the Department has failed to satisfy its burden to demonstrate that the withheld material is protected by the deliberative process privilege," Walton, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush, wrote in his 40-page opinion.
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Judge orders DOJ to publish info redacted as privileged from Mueller report (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2020
OP
Won't they just rewrite them to suit their purpose a la Peter Strzok papers? nt
woodsprite
Sep 2020
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woodsprite
(11,914 posts)1. Won't they just rewrite them to suit their purpose a la Peter Strzok papers? nt
malaise
(268,997 posts)2. Important
Get thee to the greatest page
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)3. Will Barr stall - of course he will.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,609 posts)4. K&R
triron
(22,003 posts)5. JFC! Why give them until the day before the election? Goddammit!
crickets
(25,979 posts)6. I agree. You know they have the clean digital files somewhere.
The DOJ likely could release it tomorrow. It gives them way too much room to play the "oopsie, not quite ready yet" game with the report until after the election.
elias7
(4,001 posts)7. There's no point in privileged info if something this big doesn't qualify as using it
Really, whats the f*ing point in protecting a minor piece when our democracy is at stake.