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A federal judge ordered the release of an Office of Legal Counsel memo supporting former Attorney General William Barr’s decision not to pursue obstruction of justice against former President Donald Trump following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson released a 41-page opinion on Monday rejecting arguments from the Trump DOJ that the advisory memo from March 2019 had been part of the deliberative process and subject to attorney-client privilege and thus not subject to public release following a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Instead, the Obama appointee who handed down longtime Trump associate Roger Stone’s 40-month sentence last year after overseeing the GOP operative’s jury conviction in November 2019, critiqued Barr’s handling of the Mueller report and ordered the OLC document to be released, giving the Biden DOJ until May 17 to decide if it wa
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May 04, 2021
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District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson criticized former Attorney General William Barr and the Department of Justice in a ruling ordering the release of a memo related to the Mueller report.
Berman Jackson wrote in her partially-redacted ruling that the federal government must release a memo analyzing whether or not the Justice Department should have charged former President Donald Trump with a crime in connection with the Mueller probe. In doing so, she claimed that Barr was “disingenuous” in his characterization of the Mueller report’s findings.
“Not only was the Attorney General being disingenuous then, but DOJ has been disingenuous to this Court.”
Federal Judge: Ex-Attorney General Barr Misled Congress on Trump-Russia
Attorney General William Barr and Donald Trump (Drew Angerer/Getty)
Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson rules that former Attorney General William Barr misled her and Congress over the Trump-Russia affair.
Jackson, of the US District Court in Washington DC, concluded that Barr was deceptive about advice from Justice Department officials, over whether Donald Trump should have been charged with obstruction of justice in his attempts to discredit and bury the investigation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
The judge said Barr’s actions were part of a wider pattern in which he and other senior officials were untruthful in their statements to Congress and the public.
Rep. Gohmert Grills Sessions on DoJ Links to Democrat Uranium One Corruption
Rep Louie Gohmert brought a chart to the House hearing with Attorney General Sessions’ to help visualize the extent of Democratic corruption and how it all ties in to the DOJ. He brought it on to Shannon Breem’s Fox News show Tuesday evening to discuss it.
Rep. Gohmert was one of the House members who questioned Attorney General Jeff Sessions Tuesday in what appears to be an absence of an investigation into Uranium One.
The chart outlines relationships between individuals and organizations that need to be investigated. Gohmert said, “The more you get into this the more clear it is this should be the item that has a special prosecutor. And in fact we ought to be looking at Mr. Mueller, we ought to be looking at Mr. Rosenstein.”
GOP Chairs Say Justice Is Launching Anonymous Attacks on Key Staffer
The DoJ under Rod Rosenstein is abusing their power to attack GOP representatives’ staffers, and perhaps at least one chair. Rumpelstiltskin Sessions is sleeping through it all. He had no business taking a post that he was planning to recuse himself from in such a grand way. Sessions should resign. Rosenstein, for all intents and purposes, is the Attorney General.
Trey Gowdy and Devin Nunes, chairs of their respective committees, accused the Department of Justice on Monday of targeting a House Intelligence Committee staffer. It happens to be the staffer who helped draft an explosive memo that disclosed alleged surveillance abuse within the FBI and DOJ.