TRUTHTIME FOR BARR
Two years, 28 million dollars, 50+ lawyers and FBI agents, all devoted to the task of protecting our democracy against foreign interference, and to determine if our current leaders knew about it, and if so, what did they do about it.
The result: 30+ indictments, a number of guilty pleas and convictions of Trump team members, and a 400-page report produced by a Special Counsel of unquestionable integrity.
A sign that the system works? Not yet. Because the decision on how much of that 400-page report will be given to Congress, and the public, is in the hands of an Attorney General who applied for the job by writing a memo trashing the Special Prosecutor in the midst of his investigation, and when asked at his confirmation hearings if he would publish the Mueller report, refused to commit. No surprise, the McConnell team confirmed him anyway. All hail the Chief!
Barr's 4-page summary of that 400 page report is a clear signal he will continue to protect his master, and we can expect he will redact material parts of Mueller's work on various grounds. You can scroll down and see last week's post on the subject.
One of the grounds Barr is sure to employ is a claim that material in the Mueller report reveals grand jury matters, and therefore must be kept from Congress pursuant to Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. But a recent decision by the D.C. Circuit court pulls the rug out from under that stance. What will Barr do about that? Don't be surprised if he ignores the law, or tries to squirm his way around it.
I go into more detail on that subject in my piece just published in Time.com
Read it here :
http://time.com/5567027/barr-mueller-report-redactions-grand-jury/
A bientot!
___________________
The result: 30+ indictments, a number of guilty pleas and convictions of Trump team members, and a 400-page report produced by a Special Counsel of unquestionable integrity.
A sign that the system works? Not yet. Because the decision on how much of that 400-page report will be given to Congress, and the public, is in the hands of an Attorney General who applied for the job by writing a memo trashing the Special Prosecutor in the midst of his investigation, and when asked at his confirmation hearings if he would publish the Mueller report, refused to commit. No surprise, the McConnell team confirmed him anyway. All hail the Chief!
Barr's 4-page summary of that 400 page report is a clear signal he will continue to protect his master, and we can expect he will redact material parts of Mueller's work on various grounds. You can scroll down and see last week's post on the subject.
One of the grounds Barr is sure to employ is a claim that material in the Mueller report reveals grand jury matters, and therefore must be kept from Congress pursuant to Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. But a recent decision by the D.C. Circuit court pulls the rug out from under that stance. What will Barr do about that? Don't be surprised if he ignores the law, or tries to squirm his way around it.
I go into more detail on that subject in my piece just published in Time.com
Read it here :
http://time.com/5567027/barr-mueller-report-redactions-grand-jury/
A bientot!
___________________
As my regular readers know, there is no fixed schedule for these posts. If you want a notice of each new posting, send me an email and I will add you to the notice list. mlondon34@gmail.com
posted by marty at 11:44 AM
<< Home