Posted on 03/05/2020 2:49:18 PM PST by yesthatjallen
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Department of Justice to hand over to him a copy of the unredacted Mueller report and accused Attorney General William Barr of misrepresenting its findings in the days before it was submitted to Congress last year.
Judge Reggie B. Walton, a federal district court judge in Washington, said that he could not reconcile Barr's public comments in April 2019 about the report with the actual findings that former special counsel Robert Mueller outlined.
"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 his decision. ADVERTISEMENT
"These circumstances generally, and Attorney General Barr’s lack of candor specifically, call into question Attorney General Barr’s credibility" as well as the DOJ's arguments in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, Walton added.
The judge, who was appointed to the court by former President George W. Bush, said he would review the full report to determine whether the redactions made by the DOJ are subject to a FOIA request.
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A judge appointed by obama..er..GWB.
This time they REALLY have Trump
Another Obama resistance judge..
Mueller testified for two days at least. These evil bastards will keep beating this dead horse over and over.
I’d tell the judge to F off
Order away, Reggie.
And go pound sand.
How about the Mueller report on Iraq’s WMDs?
None dare call it treason.
Oh. So the reports do not agree, but it was MUELLER who got it right and BARR who got it wrong? Mueller, who could not utter a coherent sentence in his testimony? And the resolution lies in the revelation of a few redacted details in the Mueller report?
BS.
Sorry judge...you are not cleared to see this. You can ask the supremes.
What, coronavirus hasn’t killed enough people to satisfy the commies so they are back to this crap
So then the entire report doesn’t conflict with Barr’s summary, but this judge thinks the redactions will prove Barr a liar.
Didn’t Mueller testify there was nothing inaccurate in Barr’s summary?
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Deep State has to protect their Corrupt methods and incomes
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Buzzfeed FOIAs? Buzzfeed? They have any credibility?
My prediction: this will make it to the appellate courts and be reversed.
That said, I’m all for seeing an unredacted version as Pencilneck Schiff couldn’t pull anything bad from his access, and an unredacted version will likely lead to exposing Democrat/FBI wrongdoing.
Ergo, I’m all for this.
But first read him on to whatever the classification and SCI’s are involved.
Then when he violates the nondisclosure law, though his Commie butt into a nice cage at Gitmo.
Oh, I remember now. He's the one who talks and thinks like a character in a sit-com.
I would say produce it without the redactions. Let the judge take responsibility if there are any adverse repercussions.
I hope we see this day.
THROW... darn fat brain. (See I didn’t blame fat fingers.)
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