Justice Department improperly redacted court filing linked to Mueller probe
In her decision, Judge Beryl A. Howell of the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia said the Justice Department incorrectly interpreted rules concerning grand jury protections to conceal the identities of two witnesses who did not testify before the grand jury summoned by Mueller.
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She said the rule in question is not a "barrier to disclosure of the identities of two individuals whose testimony the special counsel chose not to present to the grand jury," she said, ordering the department to file a second copy of the court document with the names of the two witnesses and several sentences unredacted.
Justice Howell said that the two individuals “figured in key events” that Mueller had investigated, and that their names ought to be shared with the public regardless of the decision to not bring them before the Grand Jury.
I saw this last week but had been unable to post here. I subsequently forgot about it until this evening.
Who will it be? And what will those “several sentences” tell us?
Monday, Oct 21, 2019 · 1:24:10 AM +00:00 · subtropolis
Leave it to me to finally get around to posting this, only to find that it’s already happened. With a tip of the hat to MTmofo ...
I honestly was thinking that junior would be one of them but felt it best to leave the guesswork to the comments.
McGahn fits with the reason that I believe that Mueller didn’t push too hard on junior. I think that they felt that doing so — against either of these two — would endanger the very existence of their investigation(s). Not that Trump could really make it all simply vanish. But he could cause irreparable damage, and that McGahn should be left as an impeachment witness and junior to be indicted once a Trump was in the bag.