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Justice Department may release more of Mueller report material on Roger Stone
The Justice Department said Friday that it might release a less-redacted version of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, possibly revealing more information about President Trump’s confidant Roger Stone.
The notice of a possible release by June 19 came in a department status report to a U.S. judge in Washington hearing an open records act lawsuit seeking full release of the March 2019 report by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a watchdog group, and BuzzFeed News journalist Jason Leopold.
The department said it is reviewing information that was earlier withheld to protect personal privacy and pending court or law enforcement proceedings. Now that Stone has been convicted at trial, sentenced for lying in a congressional Russia probe and a gag order in his case lifted, the department is reviewing its redactions.
The department “concluded that reprocessing the Mueller Report is appropriate,” and its Office of Information Policy is “reevaluating whether the redactions .?.?. for material related to Mr. Stone in the Mueller Report remain applicable,” an attorney with the civil division’s federal programs branch wrote in a two-page notice.
The office will post an updated version of the report in its online Freedom of Information Act library no later than next Friday if appropriate, trial attorney Courtney D. Enlow wrote.
U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton earlier ordered the Justice Department to produce a complete report for his review, and this week he set a July 20 hearing for the government to provide more information about remaining redactions.
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