📱 HUGE NEWS!!! CREW Gets Barr's Secret Mueller Memo Released!!! 📱

[Tommymac]

Link to tweet

Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew 1h
BREAKING: We won! We're going to get the secret memo Barr used to undercut the Mueller Report and claim it was insufficient to find Trump obstructed justice. And we're going to make it public.
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Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew 9m
You can read the decision here: https://citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Final-opinion.pdf

From the decision pdf , bold mine:

The court determined that the Department had failed to
carry its burden to show the deliberative-process privilege
applied. In particular, the court held that the Department had
not identified a relevant agency decision as to which the
memorandum formed part of the deliberations. The
Department’s submissions, the court explained, indicated that
the memorandum conveyed advice about whether to charge the
President with a crime. But the court’s in camera review of the
memorandum revealed that the Department in fact never
considered bringing a charge. Instead, the memorandum
concerned a separate decision that had gone entirely
unmentioned by the government in its submissions to the
court—what, if anything, to say to Congress and the public
about the Mueller Report.
We affirm the district court. The Department’s
submissions in the district court gave no indication that the
memorandum related to Attorney General Barr’s decision
about making a public statement on the Mueller Report.
Because the Department did not tie the memorandum to
deliberations about the relevant decision, the Department failed
to justify its reliance on the deliberative-process privilege.

And they are going to make it public!

Thank You Thank You Thank You!

[Victor_c3]

1. When are they going to release it?

Sorry if I missed it in the OP.

[ShazzieB]

35. It's out. Not the full Mueller report, but Barr's memo about it.

https://citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Final-opinion.pdf

[ironcheffan_uc2001]

49. No it's not.

The memo will likely not be seen for at least months, if at all. CREW has been after the Barr memo since April 18, 2019 when they filed their initial FOIA request. That request was denied on April 19, 2019. CREW filed this suit on May 28, 2019.

The order to release the memo was initially entered on May 4, 2021 by Judge Amy Berman Jackson. The Department of Justice appealed claiming that releasing the memo would create a 'chilling effect' by publicly airing internal decision making processes, advisors to policy makers would circumscribe their advice, instead of being candid, open, and honest.

Arguments in the appeal were only heard in December of 2021 where the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit found that the government failed to prove that the 'deliberative-process privilege' applied. It took nine months for the court to reach this decision, and the process is not over by a long shot.

This opinion is from a three judge panel, which is where most appeals begin. The losing party will very likely appeal seeking en banc review, where all 16 judges on the DC circuit will hear the case again. At least eight votes will be needed for CREW to succeed, a tie means the previous ruling stands. And given that the Department of Justice is the losing party, the court will very likely allow the appeal to proceed in terms of filing, arguing, and ruling, which will take mucho time, and DoJ has 60 (yes, sixty) days to file any said appeal.

Assuming Justice appeals for en banc review, and CREW wins, the Department has another 60 days to appeal to SCOTUS.

[Botany]

2. Barr's job was to stop the facts from the Mueller Report getting out end of story.

Barr was and still is a fixer for the GOP. Americas needs to see the complete and un-redacted Mueller Report.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/was-there-a-connection-between-a-russian-bank-and-the-trump-campaign

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html

[Mr. Ected]

3. Are we through with protecting Trump?

First, he's untouchable because he's running for president. Then he was untouchable because the crimes he committed to become president couldn't be adjudicated because he was the ostensible president. Now he's untouchable because he's an ex-president who may once again run for office?

Enough of this kid glove shit. Is the Constitution worth the paper it's written on? It isn't if we let the worst of the worst escape justice because a non-existent legal protective shield that is only partisan in nature.

[calimary]

9. Totally with you on this, Mr. Ected.

Enough of this kid gloves shit!!

[Silent3]

12. +1,000,000,000! n/t

[txwhitedove]

22. Yes, exactly. Quit tiptoeing around that f-ing threat to America.

[Trueblue1968]

31. CAN WE HAVE A BIG PARTY ??

[certainot]

39. he's a republican, and he has 1500 radio stations excusing, rationalizing the hypocracy - that's the

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difference

anyone who thinks its a few dufus fascists on fox or some emails and web sites enabling this are fools

[Ligyron]

55. and hear, hear as well.

[mrsadm]

53. Here here!

[TheRickles]

4. What steps have to be taken so that the unredacted Mueller report can finally be released?

It should be out there already, for all to see.

[moniss]

13. Very good observation

and even the redacted report is damning for that whole cabal. The obstruction charges could have easily been brought not just for the Orange Ruski but his minions as well. Remember also that the final Mueller report was far more "restrained" than the investigative staff wanted. So Barr obliterated what had been weakened already. The media, like MSNBC, had the opportunity to schedule programming for presenting a narration of the report in its' entirety. But they decided seeing prisoners fight each other was better programming for a weekend. That left us with he said/he said segments which are the cheapest and easiest to produce. They are also the least informative. I still have the entire report on my computer. It makes me so sick to my stomach every time I go to refer to it.

[triron]

16. The media was avoiding it, too 'controversial '.

[KS Toronado]

17. Been wondering the same thing ever since Biden took the WH.

[usonian]

11. NFL ♥︎ DU, NOT!

Or am I just lucky?

[pandr32]

6. I am excited to be able to finally read this!

Another piece of the jigsaw puzzle to be put in proper place. The image is getting clearer now.

[Tommymac]

8. I know, it's gonna be sweet!

The walls are tumbling down.

[FakeNoose]

29. Unfortunately this is not the unredacted Mueller report

This is Bill Barr's memo discussing the unredacted report, which he had at his fingertips when he wrote this memo. We have never seen it. We've only seen the redacted one that has all the blocked out texts and footnotes.

Bill Barr's memo is very heavy on legal references, etc. that most of us non-lawyers (well, I'm not a lawyer) will find dense and difficult to make sense. I really hope that someone on DU can go through this memo and rewrite it in a way that the rest of us can grasp.

That being said, I'm very happy that the dam finally broke on the FOIA requests. Maybe this means that the real meaty stuff will come out soon. This is very good news.

[FarPoint]

7. I have heard thru the grapevine that Barr

he is going to meet up with an investigation on his dealings with tRump's biddings. Something about doing searches/ investigating on tRumps personal enemies...not what Atty General duties encompass...

[OMGWTF]

10. Next time I update my Will, I'm adding CREW as a beneficiary.

[moniss]

14. Could

you tuck me in there somewhere?

[gab13by13]

15. Mueller left 8 counts of obstruction of justice and

left the evidence to convict "individual one," don't blame Barr for that.

[Lonestarblue]

19. I was disappointed that Garland decided to let the clock run out on those.

Solely for political reasons to not appear partisan. When will government officials understand that screaming about unfair partisanship is a key tool in the Republican playbook? Republicans got the mainstream media to roll over and stop reporting anything negative about their actions, and indeed to publish the opinion pieces of right-wing crazies as if their lies are equal to reality. Republicans are the cause of the both sides do it nonsense that we see so often today.

I have not understood either why the full Mueller report has never been released, even with redactions to protect security interests. I remember reading that some redactions were made to avoid embarrassing some of Trump’s family members (possibly Jr.’s coke habit). And embarrassment is a legal issue, how?

[fightforfreedom]

20. You are wrong. You have been repeating this forever.

When are you going to understand Barr buried Muellers report? Mueller could do nothing about the evidence of obstruction under the rules, it was all up to Barr.

[uponit7771]

21. Garland can do something about the Mueller report right now.

[fightforfreedom]

23. Like what?

[uponit7771]

24. Charge Benedict Donald on OOJ were their are substantial evidence of intent and actions

Graph here, looks like there's 4 and none of them need to be "slam dunks" Clinton's charges weren't

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/wsfsmDNZ9WmmvvWRTKfuq4VJ1Orc8oyCdiMk-pHiTk_C7jq4K4QhkVFyso-xxtG3JnPX_qRAU6fAlK3h97cXb1AYjGs-2paP6BCjt3s1aySbPDeG87CD8r50QM9I5IZC9oZRBeZ5

[fightforfreedom]

26. Garland has nothing to do. Lets go back years and start an investigation that will fail.

[uponit7771]

28. Well the DOJ did it with Hunter Biden and 2 years is not "lets go back". Mueller has already ...

... shown there's probable cause for charging and "go back years" isn't a good reason for not upholding the law.

[Justice matters.]

32. The 5-year statute of limitations has expired for most of these OoJ crimes.

And starting new processes to charge the few remaining cases would extend beyond these limitations by the time they would get presented in court(s).

Also, the "royal" supremely-corrupt court blocked the House from obtaining the full, unredacted version :

https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2021/07/02/house-bid-for-mueller-grand-jury-info-fizzles-out-at-u-s-supreme-court/?slreturn=20220719151433

[uponit7771]

40. Not for Mueller investigation OOJ by the DOJ. That link is for the house to have info that the DOJ

... already has

[Justice matters.]

46. The statute of limitations is 5 years. These OoJ's occured in 2017-2018.

Starting GJ investigations now would not result in succesful trials since the judge(s) would toss them out due to those 5-year statute of limitations.

The orange shitgibbon managed to escape consequences for those crimes thanks to Bill Barr.

[uponit7771]

47. The 4 most egregious OOJ charges were in 18 and a GJ doesn't need a year to charge

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[Justice matters.]

48. Whether you like it or not, DoJ will absolutely not go the way you want it to go.

They have bigger, better, easier cases to prove with the actual investigations in both J6 GJ and Mar-de-Largo JG.

They will focus on those two. History will judge the Mueller Report: It will come out un-redacted one day or another.

Let's not distract from the 2 most important ones that are ongoing now.

Whether you like it or not (and I don't like it either), DoJ will not spend resources on that one before the full statute of limitations will expire.

Mark my words.

[uponit7771]

54. That's not justice

[Justice matters.]

56. Agreed. Statutes of Limitations are not Justice.

Don't know who the F thought it was a good idea to codify...

[Ohio Joe]

38. You want to do things like tfg?

The Hunter investigation started in 2018 as a political investigation. After 4+ years it has found both jack and shit.

It was a loser of a case from day 1 and was done in an effort to try and score cheap political points… It even failed in that but… You think we should emulate that failed and bogus investigation with a bogus and doomed to fail investigation of our own… Really?

Why? What do you think we’ll gain?

Imitating the failures of tfg seems like a bad plan to me… I’m really curious why you suggest we do so.

[uponit7771]

41. No, just uphold the law and we don't have to be like anyone ... people none of the reasons ...

... proffered so far are a good reason or prevent the DOJ from moving forward on OOJ charges on Benedict Donald.

[Ohio Joe]

42. Sigh...

Not that I expect you will either read or believe but:

https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/02/10/on-unrealistic-expectations-for-mueller-report-obstruction-charges/

You are being unrealistic and your desire to go after this because tfg went after Biden shows you want us to act like tfg.

It's a bad plan.

[uponit7771]

43. lol ... "sigh" back, I used the data out of your link in my reply in regards to DOJ actions.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217061849#post23

[Ohio Joe]

44. I did...

You should read the entire chart and not just your selected bit... You should also read everything supporting it but... You won't.

That you need to edit the chart to try and make your point tells me everything I need. I'm done here.

[uponit7771]

45. Good true Ohio Joe, nothing was "edited" and your link clearly shows there are 4 charges that ...

... have significant actions, nexus and intent behind them the DOJ can act on.

The DOJ has gotten better in telling America they're not with Benedict Donald in the last week but there's ... NO DAMN DOUBT ... they can act on past charges against Trump.

[NoMoreRepugs]

25. Deputy Dawg AKA FatFuck BillyBarr is and always has been a ShitStain.

[H2O Man]

27. Recommended.

[malaise]

30. K & R

Great news

[IcyPeas]

33. drip.... drip..... drip.....

[Hermit-The-Prog]

34. Let us remember...

[UTUSN]

36. K&R

[blogslug]

37. Good

[TigressDem]

50. So Barr's objection was a nothing burger on an invisible bun, hold the truth and side of justice? nt

[spanone]

51. ...K&R...

[onenote]

52. The memorandum is going to conclude the evidence didn't support a prosecution

Why do we think it's release will be such a good thing?