30 Mar 2020 8:05 pm
DOJ turns over unredacted Mueller report to judge who questioned Barr's 'credibility'
A federal judge who questioned Attorney General William Barr's "credibility" received an unredacted copy of former special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Justice Department attorneys notified the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia of the transfer in a brief filing on Monday, noting it was in pursuance to two orders this month by District Court Judge Reggie Walton.
Walton, an appointee of President George W. Bush, said the court had "grave concerns about the objectivity of the process that preceded the public release of the redacted version of the Mueller Report” and its “impacts on the Justice Department’s subsequent justifications” that its redactions of the report were authorized under the Freedom of Information Act.
The judge said on March 5 he agreed with the Electronic Privacy Information Center and BuzzFeed, which sued for the report in its entirety under FOIA, that Barr had “dubiously handled the public release of the" Mueller report.
Despite the transfer Monday, which included two paper copies and an electronic copy of the two records at issue, the court won't be able to immediately review them because of the coronavirus.
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