BuzzFeed Gets Legal Victory in Fight for Release of Redacted Sections of Mueller Report

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Newsweek

News organization Buzzfeed won a legal victory Tuesday in its lawsuit fighting for the release of certain redacted sections of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation report, the Associated Press reported. A federal appeals court ordered the Justice Department to unveil 10 previously hidden passages of the report, including one regarding certain people who were probed by prosecutors but did not end up facing any charges.

The Mueller report looked into possible Russian election interference and connections to former President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign. The three-judge panel sided with a lower court judge in choosing to keep certain parts of the report redacted, the AP reported.

But other passages that the Justice Department had requested to keep hidden to protect the privacy rights of the people in question can be unveiled because the "personally identifying information alleged to be contained in the redacted passages is available elsewhere in the Report," Judge Karen Henderson said in the opinion.

"The redacted passages contain no new facts; they contain no new information or descriptions of conduct that have not been made public elsewhere in this very Report. The privacy interests, then, are not robust, as no additional reputational or stigmatizing harm can result from the disclosure of the information contained therein," the opinion added.


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[empedocles]

2. Good

[onenote]

3. Unfortunately, from the description, it sounds like a nothing burger.

From the opinion:

"The redacted passages contain no new facts; they contain no new information or descriptions of conduct that have not been made public elsewhere in this very Report. The privacy interests, then, are not robust, as no additional reputational or stigmatizing harm can result from the disclosure of the information contained therein."

[Jarqui]

5. Why fight about it then? Why redact it?

People tend to do things for a reason.

[cstanleytech]

12. To allow for a "victory" to occur for those pushing for it all to be disclosed with the hope

that it weakens a push for even more to be revealed thus allowing the parts that they really want concealed to remain so.

[Evolve Dammit]

4. Why do "we" have to sue to get the report from an inquiry we paid for?? "By the People" right?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. We have a report about about an extortion and your mother is mentioned 20 times

... with a bunch of details.

Should we release it to the public, unredacted? She is not accused but there are some personal details. It was paid for with state taxpayer money.


(Thought experiment; no such report)

[Evolve Dammit]

14. It was Grand Jury testimony. Hopefully the judge and attorneys would not entertain frivolity.

[bronxiteforever]

6. Kick and recommend.

[Hoyt]

8. Bet there's nothing there that changes anything

[MyOwnPeace]

9. ENOUGH of the DEBATE!!!!

WE paid for it!

WE deserve to see it!

Billy Barr kept it hidden!

THAT tells us that WE NEED TO SEE IT!!!!!!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

10. "no additional reputational or stigmatizing harm can result from the disclosure of the information

contained therein".

Well PHEW then!

We certainly wouldn't want any of THAT!

[aeromanKC]

11. The Full Mueller Report will be un-redacted at some point

Unfortunately most of us will be dead. BUT it will be fully un-redacted at sometime in the future. History books will not look kindly to Trump and his administration. Guaranteed. Mark this post. (Hopefully DU will still be around in 75 years)

[Evolve Dammit]

15. My incinerated ashes will still want to see it!

[bucolic_frolic]

13. So it was all hiding in plain sight but they didn't want us to CONNECT THE DOTS