Mueller Report Redactions on Roger Stone Are Revealed
Source: The New York Times
WASHINGTON The Justice Department released information on Friday about President Trumps friend and former campaign adviser Roger J. Stone Jr. that it had previously redacted from the report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The newly disclosed material dealt largely with efforts by the Trump campaign to discover what material WikiLeaks had obtained that could be damaging to Hillary Clintons campaign. Mr. Stone was at the forefront of the campaigns effort to contact WikiLeaks, the chosen repository of Russian government for a trove of Clinton campaign emails and other documents that its operatives stole in an attempt to boost Mr. Trumps election chances.
When the Mueller report was released last year, the Justice Department withheld information about Mr. Stones efforts to serve as an intermediary with WikiLeaks, in order, it said, to protect a continuing criminal case against him on charges of lying to investigators and witness tampering. But a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a watchdog group, and the BuzzFeed News journalist Jason Leopold challenged those and other redactions as violations of the Freedom of Information Act.
The departments decision to release more of the text of the report came after the federal judge overseeing that case, Judge Reggie B. Walton of the District of Columbia, expressed suspicion about whether the redactions were justified and ordered government lawyers to provide him with the full report so he could review the redactions himself.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/us/politics/mueller-report-redactions-roger-stone.html
Reggie B. Walton, a George W. Bush nominee, began his service nearly two weeks after 9/11.
Botany
(70,581 posts)"The newly disclosed material dealt largely with efforts by the Trump campaign to discover what material WikiLeaks had obtained that could be damaging to Hillary Clintons campaign. Mr. Stone was at the forefront of the campaigns effort to contact WikiLeaks, the chosen repository of Russian government for a trove of Clinton campaign emails and other documents that its operatives stole in an attempt to boost Mr. Trumps election chances."
certainot
(9,090 posts)they could take them out of context and blast them all over the country for months and years. clinton knew it and
wikileaks also was supplier of the global-warming-is a hoax hack of east anglia climate scientists
do the unredacted parts include mention of hannity, who was redacted in the glossary. Or talk radio?
in what part of the redactions does hannity appear (redacted in glossary between graf and hawker)? use of radio? real estate deals and wife cheating don't rate mueller redactions. it's about russian use of talk radio - like when we used the 'voice of america' to destroy soviet propaganda efforts around the world. putin would want revenge. all he had to do was figure out how to feed limbaugh.
and now the cons are taking down the original voice of america and replacing it with more putin
sandensea
(21,664 posts)But rather, Cheeto's personal interest - as represented by a mafia consigliere (Jabba-the-Barr).
Thank you, Judge Walton!