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Thẩm phán của đảng Cộng Hòa, Reggie B. Walton, đòi công khai toàn bộ báo cáo của Ông Mueller

Subject: ***_thẩm_phán_liê n_bang_Mỹ_đòi_xem_báo_cáo_KHÔNG_BÔI _XÓA_của_Mueller_!
Date: Fri, March 06, 2020 8:38 pm

Cái kim trong bọc sẽ có ngày lòi ra !

William Barr đã tóm lược báo cáo 400 trang của Ông Mueller trong 4 trang giấy, nhằm xóa tội TT Trump trong khi phớt lờ những phần quan trọng của tập báo cáo !
(trong đó có hàng trăm vụ liên lạc giữa người Nga và phe Trump, cộng với hơn 10 vụ cản trở điều tra mà Quốc Hội cần xét xử )

Sau 1 tháng, W. Barr mới trao cho Quốc Hội bản báo cáo này, sau khi đã bôi xóa phần lớn các thông tin bất lợi cho TT Trump !

Chính Ông Mueller đã phàn nàn rằng W. Barr "đã không phản ánh trung thực đầy đủ bối cảnh, bản chất và thực chất của công cuộc điều tra và các kết luận"

Do vụ kiện dựa trên Luật Tự Do Thông Tin để đòi công khai toàn bộ báo cáo của Ông Mueller, vị thẩm phán của vụ kiện, Reggie B. Walton,
phe Cộng Hòa do TT George W. Bush bổ nhiệm, ra lệnh cho Bộ Tư Pháp phải trình lên ông toàn bản báo cáo không bôi xóa (unredacted) với lí do W. Barr thiếu "thành thật và độ tin cậy"
- thay vì nói thẳng ra, là nó dối gạt, dối trá, nói láo ! - trong nỗ lực có tính toán để chạy tội cho TT Trump !

Lệnh đòi bản báo cáo không bôi xóa này phải được trình trước tòa trước ngày 30 tháng 3 năm nay !

Bộ Tư Pháp của W. Barr không dám ho he bình luận !

Ngay cả thẩm phán của đảng Cộng Hòa cũng không thể tin được W. Barr và TT Trump !

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Judge demands unredacted Mueller report, questions Barr's "credibility"
Harper Neidig
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/486219-judge-orders-doj-to-hand-over-unredacted-mueller-report

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Department of Justice to hand over to him a copy of the unredacted Muell...

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to hand over to him a copy of the unredacted Mueller report and accused Attorney General William Barr of misrepresenting its findings in the days before it was submitted to Congress last year.

Judge Reggie B. Walton, a federal district court judge in Washington, said that he could not reconcile Barr's public comments in April 2019 about the report with the actual findings that former special counsel Robert Mueller outlined.

"The inconsistencies between Attorney General Barr’s statements, made at a time when the public did not have access to the redacted version of the Mueller Report to assess the veracity of his statements, and portions of the redacted version of the Mueller Report that conflict with those statements cause the Court to seriously question whether Attorney General Barr made a calculated attempt to influence public discourse about the Mueller Report in favor of President Trump despite certain findings in the redacted version of the Mueller Report to the contrary," Walton wrote in his decision.

"These circumstances generally, and Attorney General Barr’s lack of candor specifically, call into question Attorney General Barr’s credibility" as well as the DOJ's arguments in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, Walton added.

A DOJ spokeswoman did not respond when asked for comment.

The judge, who was appointed to the court by former President George W. Bush, said he would review the full report to determine whether the redactions made by the DOJ are subject to a FOIA request. The unredacted version will not be released to the public in the meantime.

After Mueller submitted his long-awaited report on his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, the DOJ waited nearly a month before releasing to the public a redacted version in April. During that time, Barr summarized the findings publicly as clearing Trump of any wrongdoing and concluding that neither he nor his campaign had colluded with Russia for assistance during the presidential race.

Mueller criticized Barr's framing of his report, writing in a letter to the DOJ last year that it “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this Office’s work and conclusions."

The report said that while the investigation had not been able to establish proof that the campaign had conspired with Russia, it found "multiple links between Trump campaign officials and individuals tied to the Russian government."

Walton is presiding over a pair of consolidated FOIA lawsuits brought by Buzzfeed journalist Jason Leopold and the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center.

The judge said that Barr's public statements about the report has caused him to doubt the DOJ's arguments that the redactions should remain in place.

"The Court has grave concerns about the objectivity of the process that preceded the public release of the redacted version of the Mueller Report and its impacts on the Department’s subsequent (false) justifications that its redactions of the Mueller Report are authorized by the FOIA," Walton wrote.

He ordered the DOJ to hand over the unredacted report by March 30.

A DOJ spokeswoman did not respond when asked for comment.

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