Top Judiciary Republican reviews less-redacted Mueller report

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee on Monday announced he had reviewed a less-redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigative report, which comes after top House Democrats rejected an offer to do so.

Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) hailed the version he reviewed in a secure Department of Justice (DOJ) room as further supporting the idea that President Trump committed no wrongdoing, pointing to the core conclusions Attorney General William Barr sent to Congress last month.

“Today I had the opportunity to view the Mueller report at the Department of Justice," Collins said in a statement.

"The report’s 182-page look at obstruction questions includes only four redactions in total, and both volumes reinforce the principal conclusions made public last month."

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/440016-top-judiciary-republican-reviews-less-redacted-mueller-report

Uh huh.

[Ninga]

1. No no no no and no! How much more needs to

happen before Articles of Impeachment are filed!

[elleng]

3. The House has to do it's own investigation.

AFTER Articles of Impeachment, it's in the SENATE's hands.

[uponit7771]

8. The impeachment process involves investigations but with prosecutorial abilities

[Ninga]

9. Thanks! I still say get Impeachment in the

Pipeline!

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Yeah, right. Let's get an independent reviewer in there of the Mueller report...

and have them give all of us a honest opinion?

[MyOwnPeace]

4. OK!!!!!

So the rest of us can see them, right?

What?

You hiding something?

[triron]

5. Who here gives a republican any credence

[manor321]

6. 1) That version is still redacted, 2) He isn't allowed to talk about the contents

This is why Democrats wisely refused to play this game.

[SunSeeker]

7. Barr's viewing terms were that you couldn't talk about what was in the less redacted report.

That is why the Dems refused, saying that would make the information useless.

But here is a Republican talking about it, and no doubt lying about it. Sickening.

We need to start formal impeachment investigation hearings immediately. That is the only way to get Mueller's grand jury info.

From the Washington Post:

In the face of Barr’s decision not to disclose any of the Mueller report to the public or even to the House Judiciary Committee chaired by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D- N.Y.) until Barr and his team have scrubbed the report of grand jury information (and other material), Nadler and committee Democrats have authorized a subpoena for the full report, setting the stage for a court fight over the committee’s right to see grand jury information. Although the public need underlying the request for disclosure in McKeever was much less pressing, the decision in that case undermines the position of Nadler’s committee, because the controlling federal rule contains no exception allowing congressional “oversight” committees to demand access to otherwise secret grand jury proceedings.

One of the exceptions to grand jury secrecy is disclosure “preliminary to or in connection with a judicial proceeding.” To authorize disclosure of the Watergate grand jury information, the special prosecutor’s office argued that the House had authorized its Judiciary Committee to conduct a formal impeachment inquiry and that such an inquiry could be fairly analogized to a “grand jury” investigation and thus a judicial proceeding. Both the district court and the court of appeals agreed, and the Judiciary Committee obtained both the report and the underlying evidence.

Significantly, the appeals court decision several days ago reaffirmed that exception. All three judges agreed that an impeachment inquiry falls within the “exception for judicial proceedings” and “coheres” with other rulings about the proper scope of grand jury secrecy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-full-mueller-report-could-be-released--if-the-house-opens-impeachment-hearings/2019/04/08/e47fff42-5a14-11e9-a00e-050dc7b82693_story.html