Judge orders DOJ to publish info redacted as privileged from Mueller report

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Source: The Hill

September 30, 2020 - 02:21 PM EDT

BY HARPER NEIDIG

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.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/518981-judge-orders-doj-to-publish-info-redacted-as-privileged-from-mueller

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Order (pdf)
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.205521/gov.uscourts.dcd.205521.130.0_4.pdf

[bucolic_frolic]

1. So here's where the 2nd court order will be ignored

The first being Wilbur Ross and the Census deadline. Sounds like courts are readying a showdown on court orders and perhaps subpoenas tagging along

[Mr.Bill]

7. Getting their ducks in a row

for January when we have a real Attorney General.

[riversedge]

2. ..............In March, Walton ordered the DOJ to give him access to an unredacted copy of the repor

Barr is a big crook!!

......In March, Walton ordered the DOJ to give him access to an unredacted copy of the report so that he could review their withholdings. He excoriated the department and Attorney General William Barr at the time for misrepresenting the report's conclusions before it was actually released.



"The inconsistencies between Attorney General Barr’s statements, made at a time when the public did not have access to the redacted version of the Mueller Report to assess the veracity of his statements, and portions of the redacted version of the Mueller Report that conflict with those statements cause the Court to seriously question whether Attorney General Barr made a calculated attempt to influence public discourse about the Mueller Report in favor of President Trump despite certain findings in the redacted version of the Mueller Report to the contrary," Walton wrote in March.

"These circumstances generally, and Attorney General Barr’s lack of candor specifically, call into question Attorney General Barr’s credibility" and the DOJ's arguments in the FOIA lawsuit, the judge added.

Updated at 3:11 p.m.

[dchill]

9. +1.

[Jim__]

3. I expect the DOJ will appeal. - n/t

[yuiyoshida]

4. Trump is out of control, he will block this somehow

Fucking Republicans gotta go! flush them out of office!!!

[stillcool]

5. so many cogs in the wheel...

that brought us here, and not a word.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. DOJ won't do it.

[dchill]

10. The judge has unredacted copy.

[Evolve Dammit]

8. Enforceable deadline for release? Ramifications of non-compliance?

[Sucha NastyWoman]

11. All good questions

Another: Can the court publish it if they don’t?