A US Court of Appeals ruling makes clear that DOJ redactions can be undone if their real purpose is to hide relevant information.
The content in question refers to the press and the public rather than to protect the proper functioning of government.
The Federal appeals court rules that the DOJ must make public an internal legal memo commissioned by then-Attorney General William Barr in 2019 to analyze whether he should charge then-President Donald Trump with obstruction related to the Russia investigation.
Are the Republicans the authors of a hoax and a judicial scam on American taxpayers to protect the hoodlum former guy who was working with Russia to steps the election?
The Justice Department was responding to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking disclosure of the memo, argued that virtually the entire memorandum and related records should be shielded under a FOIA exemption that protects internal government deliberations.
But the D.C. Circuit Court panel affirming the lower court’s decision, ruled that the DOJ had failed to prove that the so-called deliberative-process privilege justified keeping the records secret.
The Justice Department must how’ve release a 2019 memo advising then-attorney general Bill Barr on how to handle the conclusion of the Mueller investigation and the department’s decision not to charge the former guy..