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In disclosing the Mueller report, Attorney General William P. Barr will have to redact grand-jury information. That is the upshot of the ruling today by a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
I flagged this case, now called McKeever v. Barr (formerly McKeever v. Sessions), last week. It did not arise out of the Mueller investigation, but it obviously has significant ramifications for the Mueller report — in particular, how much of it we will get to see.
At issue was this question: Does a federal court have the authority to order disclosure of grand-jury materials if the judge decides that the interests of justice warrant doing so; or is the judge limited to the exceptions to grand-jury secrecy that are spelled out in Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure? The D.C. Circuit’s McKeever ruling holds that the text of Rule 6(e) controls. Consequently, judges have no authority to authorize disclosure outside the rule.
This is significant for the Mueller report because Rule 6(e) does not contain an exception to secrecy that would permit disclosure to Congress.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: Xcathdra
Part of me wonders if this is why Democrats were demanding to loudly to report be released to them immediately.
It's called grandstanding, everyone in DC does it since their gullible dupes back home actually fall for this crap.
Well considering you'll already hanged these people in your mind, there isn't really a point for you to read anything Mueller related.
originally posted by: underwerks
Did anyone really expect to see the entire report? By the time grifters like Barr get done with it it'll be more blacked out than Kavanaugh on a school night.
originally posted by: vinifalou
a reply to: Xcathdra
And precisely, what kind of information do you think they'll have to redact?
Asking because I really wanted to see the full report with names and possible incoming indictments. I mean, there must be the names of the perpetrators of the biggest political hoax ever made, amirite?
originally posted by: underwerks
Did anyone really expect to see the entire report?
originally posted by: Arnie123
Well considering you'll already hanged these people in your mind, there isn't really a point for you to read anything Mueller related.
originally posted by: underwerks
Did anyone really expect to see the entire report? By the time grifters like Barr get done with it it'll be more blacked out than Kavanaugh on a school night.
originally posted by: underwerks
Did anyone really expect to see the entire report? By the time grifters like Barr get done with it it'll be more blacked out than Kavanaugh on a school night.
To be fair, during the age of *OBAMA*, they WERE DOING WHAT THEY WANT.
originally posted by: Xcathdra
originally posted by: underwerks
Did anyone really expect to see the entire report?
Democrats... For some strange reason Congressional Democrats think they can do anything they want, including violating federal law, which is exactly what they are trying to do.
Its up there with House Dems trying to obtain Trumps tax info by using an obscure section of IRS law that has absolutely no legal basis / application to how its trying to be used.
As for the rest of your comment explain why Democrats wanted to protect Mueller by law and now that the report doesnt give Dems what they want you guys turn on him?