Judge cites Barr's 'misleading' statements in ordering review of Mueller report redactions
Judge cites Barr’s ‘misleading’ statements in ordering review of Mueller report redactions
Attorney General William Barr speaks last month at the National Sheriffs' Association Winter Legislative and Technology Conference in Washington. (Susan Walsh/AP)
By Spencer S. Hsu and Devlin Barrett
March 5, 2020 at 5:37 p.m. EST
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/mueller-report-attorney-general-william-barr/2020/03/05/3fa7afce-5f2c-11ea-b29b-9db42f7803a7_story.html%3foutputType=amp
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A federal judge in D.C. sharply criticized Attorney General William P. Barr on Thursday for a “lack of candor,” questioning the truthfulness of the nation’s top law enforcement official in his handling of the report by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton, overseeing a lawsuit brought by EPIC, a watchdog group, and BuzzFeed News, said he saw serious discrepancies between Barr’s public statements last year about Mueller’s findings and the public, partially redacted version of that report.
Because of those discrepancies, Walton ruled, the judge would review by himself an unredacted version of the Mueller report to see if the Justice Department’s redactions were appropriate.
“In the Court’s view, Attorney General Barr’s representation that the Mueller Report would be ‘subject only to those redactions required by law or by compelling law enforcement, national security, or personal privacy interests’ cannot be credited without the Court’s independent verification in light of Attorney General Barr’s conduct and misleading public statements about the findings in the Mueller Report,” Walton wrote.
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