Posted on 01/21/2025 9:16:19 PM PST by fluorescence
A federal judge on Tuesday barred the Justice Department from sharing former special counsel Jack Smith's final report on the classified documents case against Donald Trump with members of Congress.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, found there was no urgent need for the Justice Department to share the report with the chair and ranking members of the House and Senate judiciary committees while an appeal involving Trump's co-defendants in the case is still pending.
Then-U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said earlier this month he would not make the report public until the appeals involving Trump co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira were decided, but planned to share it with the committee heads for a private review "upon your request and agreement not to release any information" about the report publicly.
In her ruling, Cannon said there had not been such a request, and suggested that the members of Congress could not be trusted not to share the contents of the report publicly.
"Given the very strong public interest in this criminal proceeding and the absence of any enforceable limits on the proposed disclosure, there is certainly a reasonable likelihood that review by members of Congress as proposed will result in public dissemination of all or part of Volume II," she wrote.
The first part of Smith's report, which detailed his investigation into Trump's efforts to stay in power following the 2020 election, was released earlier this month and contained mostly information from public court filings in the case.
Cannon said the volume on the classified documents case is different. In addition to the presence of co-defendants — whom Trump did not have in the election interference case — the report contains "detailed and voluminous" information outlining the case against Trump
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Another Trump backstabber.
....In her ruling, Cannon said there had not been such a request, and suggested that the members of Congress could not be trusted not to share the contents of the report publicly.....
Congress should not take this insult. They should move forward with impeachment articles
As with Trump’s taxes, “Leak” in 3, 2,
And yes, our yellow “Press” WILL publish.
And why does Cannon want to withhold this report? Cause there's nothing in it. Smith had no case from the get go. Releasing it would only embarrass the dems.
The Trump DOJ should follow the lead of Biden’s Department of Injustice and leak this report.
Taking a couple of replies here, and smashing them together. I predict the report will somehow leak to the press, and since it’s “out there” congress can then read it, and they will harp on details from it for the next 2 years.
Judge Aileen
When her heanous didn't want to share the emails she send out she used an app called bleachbit to make sure that it was deleted everywhere and even against her own policies for government transparency.
For when important documents are deleted like this, transparency goes out the door and the deletor (which is supposed to be logged as well) tries to hide the data from the public.
In government, these folks will cite national security as justification for deleting government documents and erasing the trail of the one who deleted it.
Typically this happens when a head of an agency or the Presidency changes. It is an attempt to evade government dcoument retention and transperency rules.
In her heanouses case, she was under investigation when on this very issue came up about emails obviously sent by her from a secret email site to evade government rules. When, asked for the secret email server data, she said it had been bleachbitted and was not available (a clear violation of governmental regulations).
The debacle went public, her party and her partys press defended her to a ludicrous degree but the public did not buy is. Her campaign crashed and she has never been held accountable.
No, this governmental document will never see the light of day. It and its required trace logging will be H-d as the rats depart the ship.
Trumps DOJ can thoroughly investigate just as the previous DOJ would on changeover, and do what the Biden DOJ did to make their lives H*LL. However, with Trump, I suspect he will declassify and release to the public the evidence of what was done and let the public weigh in on it when the Judicial and Press rats back up the deletor(s) illegal actions.
The judge is correct, to cite that only the committee heads of the proper congressional venue using proper procedures would be able to see the documents.
Misleading headline?
“...while an appeal involving Trump’s co-defendants in the case is still pending.”
Release it. Let’s hear the story. Then release the a real report on the Biden’s.
Not sure if sarcasm or not. This release was requested by Garland DOJ and opposed by Trump attorneys.
Just sayin'. 🙂👍
There’s still plenty of Garland underlings in the department that have a copy of it and will leak it to the NYT or WP.
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