💥 OMG. They just now unredacted those key portions. So I'm now going to just show you the pages that

[soothsayer]

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Jennifer Taub
@jentaub
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May 25, 2021
💥 OMG. They just now unredacted those key portions. So I’m now going to just show you the pages that were previously redacted. I’ll show you the before and after.

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Jennifer Taub
@jentaub
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Mary Pat Flynn
@MaryPatFlynn1
“And of even greater importance to this decision, the affidavits are so inconsistent with evidence in the record, they are not worthy of credence.”

[spanone]

1. K&R...

[Beakybird]

2. Unredacted what?

[maxsolomon]

5. I guess the Barr Memo on the Mueller Report?

It has everything a 2021 Gen Discussion post needs: references a tweet, provides no further context.

[lagomorph777]

19. Yeah, a perfect post.

It appears to be a court discussion about a memo about the Mueller report. So, two layers removed from the real thing.

[brush]

3. Just a couple of words of what this is about, pls.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. The future is going to have a good laugh at our expense.

They'll be saying, so you let them black out pages of information from critical summary reports, and then let the guy who believes the president should have supreme executive power to interpret what was concluded. "Nothing to see, nothing to say, just move on."

[Johnny2X2X]

6. Cliff Notes?

Read a little and it says it wouldn't recommend charges against the president.

[ananda]

18. And leaves it up to the AG.

Unfuckingbelievable.

[ancianita]

28. Unredacted pages prove that the memos from OLC fit under all communications that fit the OLC's

attorney-client privilege level. That's the gist.

The current DOJ analysis also says that the process of releasing the memos and attachments show that the process itself was not pre-decisional from Barr, who requested the Office of Legal Counsel's advice.

That doesn't actually mean Barr himself didn't 'pre-decide,' though, and just keep that to himself. He could have just used this as pro forma OLC advice, Whitaker kinda knowing what to say, anyway.

So, imo as a non-lawyer, the only person who can really, really say that there was no pre-decision is Barr himself, under oath, because these memos show no evidence of his having a pre-decision to interpret the Mueller Report the way he did to the general public on behalf of the DOJ. But appellate courts don't take testimony, from what I understand of their function. So we may never hear from Barr himself. Barr may go to his grave knowing that he'd pre-decided about the Mueller Report, and used OLC to cover that up.

It's just that, at this point in time, to this DOJ, these memos don't show evidence of Barr's pre-decision.

So it also means that this DOJ has to honor this appeal going forward, and that further considerations about other unredacted content might affect an appellate decision.

[Blue Owl]

7. Is this some kind of joke?

[Blanks]

8. This must be the pages that the court ordered that were due yesterday. nt

[ShazamIam]

9. The obvious problem is an AG who's appointment was because he supported the wacko idea that a U.S.

President is above the law, echos of the Days of Nixon, the first time the Republicans installed a wanna be dictator.

[eppur_se_muova]

10. Aw, c'mon -- /ipse dixit/ is a valid legal term ? Sounds like a kid's game.

Apparently, it's a Latin phrase meaning "it is what it is".

[Shrike47]

32. Yes to your question.

[Lonestarblue]

11. We all knew that Barr deliberately lied and misinterpreted the Mueller Report to cover for Trump.

This is just proof. When will the DOJ get rid of its ridiculous opinion that a sitting president cannot be indicted for crimes? It is a leftover from Republicans trying to protect Nixon.

[KS Toronado]

16. "Barr caught lying" should have been the title of this post.

And here's the proof.

[soothsayer]

39. You're right!

[lagomorph777]

20. When will the DOJ get rid of its ridiculous opinion that a sitting president cannot be indicted...?

+1000000 That DOJ memo is an abomination. It is anti-Constitutional and needs to be publicly burned.

[Politicub]

12. Tweeting the changed pages is an exceptionally bad way to convey information.

This is a mishmash of redaction, court opinion and reconstituted pages.

Others may be able to make sense of this, but not me. I’ll wait for a reputable journalist to opine.

[lagomorph777]

21. +1000

[calimary]

29. Indeed. I started trying to wade through it and found my eyes crossing.

Not a lawyer. So I don’t completely trust my own attempts at interpretation here.

[housecat]

13. Can somebody please summarize as Rachel Maddow would do right before a commerical break.

[BobTheSubgenius]

26. Maybe she will summarize them.

If they are as important as some people think, I'd say the odds are on the side of her including it in a broadcast. If she deems it unworthy of serious perusal and summary, we could probably just forget about it.

My impression is that it is too much of a mess for me to bother bludgeoning cognitive faculties that are already spoken for. I'll leave it to someone much better equipped to summarize and contextualize....or ignore.

[housecat]

42. My feelings exactly

[Shrike47]

14. Key portions of what, for heaven's sake? I failed mind reading in college.

[Bev54]

17. This is the un-redacteded court order

It now provides us with the information we wanted without the unredacted memo. Very clever.

[kentuck]

22. That is what I read, also.

It tells us what was in he memo without showing us the memo.

It is highly critical of AG William Barr, who was primarily concerned with putting Trump in the best light and spinning it for PR purposes.

The Report did not clear Trump of obstruction charges but left it to the AG to determine what prosecutorial actions should be taken. It was a "pre-decision" document. Barr made the decision that it did not warrant prosecution, not from the evidence, but from his personal inconsistencies.

He hid pertinent and relevant information from the Court in his redacted information.

Barr would likely argue that he had the authority to do what he did. But he did not have the authority to hide information in the manner that he did.

In effect, Barr covered-up for Trump, in my opinion.

[calimary]

31. That's undoubtedly why Orange Bang appointed him.

[GB_RN]

25. I'm A Guy

I failed it at birth. Lol

[KS Toronado]

15. Now that more truths of reQublican misdeeds are coming to light

@ssholes over at FQX news are in a panic trying to figure out how to spin it.
Will they just fall back on IQ45's favorite....FAKE NEWS?

[Justice matters.]

36. Don McGahn is due to appear at the House Judiciary Committee next week.

No live questioning on broadcast but the transcript will be released afterwards.

[bucolic_frolic]

23. Am I correct in thinking this is smartly played, or have I misunderstood?

They appealed so as not to establish precedent in releasing AG internals, then they released the subject of this appeal anyway?

Is that what's occurred here?

[soothsayer]

24. I think you might be right. Or was it that they only appealed about *some* stuff

Maybe this didn’t fall into the scope of the appeal? Seems pretty brilliant. Can’t unring this bell!

[Ms. Toad]

27. Compare the first two pages -

They aren't even a close match to each other (look at # of paragraphs, indents, etc.)

[soothsayer]

33. Yeah, I noticed that and that one has 41 pages and one has 42

I just pass these things along. If she corrects, I might too.

[DENVERPOPS]

30. My only thinking is,

So what????????????/

I have to believe that tens of millions of us are saying that.........

This incredible amount of documentation and evidence is coming out like a landslide......and seemingly, nothing is being done......

And not unlike the second impeachment, which had copious and overwhelming evidence, I really don't know what's to come of all this, regardless of the evidence and documentation......

I guess we will just have to wait and see as we have been doing daily for five years............

[Justice matters.]

37. Don McGahn is due to appear under oath at the House Judiciary Committee next week.

No live questioning on broadcast but the transcript will be released afterwards.

[Warpy]

34. I struggle with black text on white peper

so I'm going to have to wait for the WaPo article, should happen tonight.

Keratoconus sucks.

[scipan]

35. How this layman reads the first part

They can't hide it based on "deliberative process" because it wasn't pre-decisional. The decision had already been made, that it exonerated Trump, and this memo was all about how to spin it.

I gave up at Part 2: attorney-client privilege.

[burrowowl]

38. K&R

[FelineOverlord]

40. 💥 OMG. They just now unredacted those key portions. So I'm now going to just show you the pages tha

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[triron]

41. This is illuminating.