JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REVEALS IT MAY PROVIDE JUDICIAL WATCH WITH PREVIOUSLY REDACTED PORTIONS OF ROSEN

JUDICIAL WATCH ^ | 5/8/2018 | Judicial Watch

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(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today announced the Justice Department disclosed that it may soon provide the organization with additional, previously withheld material from the heavily redacted August 2 memorandum in which Rod Rosenstein granted broad authority to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, three months after Mueller’s appointment. The initial appointment memo, controversially, was written in May 2017. The Justice Department’s notice to Judicial Watch came almost immediately after the explosive District Court hearing in which Judge T.S. Ellis III demanded the full memorandum be made available to the court in two weeks, by May 18.

In a May 4 response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, the agency revealed that it is now “processing the August 2 memo to determine if it can release additional portions that have not already been filed publicly.” The Justice Department had previously refused to acknowledge that any such “scope” documents exist.

Judicial Watch filed its FOIA lawsuit against the Justice Department on October 5, 2017, after the agency failed to respond to a July 10, 2017, request (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:17-cv-02079)). Judicial Watch is seeking:

A copy of the budget prepared and submitted by Robert S. Mueller III or his staff in his capacity as appointed “Special Counsel to oversee the previously-confirmed FBI investigation of Russian government efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election and related matters.” Temporal scope of this request is from 17 May 2017 to 10 July 2017.

A copy of all guidance memoranda and communications by which the Justice Management Division will review the Special Counsel’s Office’s “Statement of Expenditures” prior to or for the purpose of making each public. Temporal scope of this request is from 1 June 2017 to present.

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full title:

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REVEALS IT MAY PROVIDE JUDICIAL WATCH WITH PREVIOUSLY REDACTED PORTIONS OF ROSENSTEIN ‘SCOPE OF AUTHORITY’ MUELLER MEMO

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[House Atreides]

The slimy DOJ Deep Staters will likely unredact 3% or some other small portion of the previously redacted text. Anyone want to bet that they release a fully unredacted version?

[Labyrinthos]

Key words: “that it may soon.” Translation: “We may, but we don’t have to,” and “soon” is relative. IMHO, this is Judicial Watch click-bate, and should not be in “breaking news.”

[janetjanet998]

I think this means more indictments soon for some people...then they will release more of the memo

[tomkat]

PERHAPS AS A RESULT OF PRESSURE FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

[conservative98]

Jeff Sessions has recused himself from being AG.

[Kalamata]

Exactly. It might rain tomorrow, too.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

My only gripe with Judge Ellis is that he should not have given the Stasi two weeks. He should have given Mueller's crew 24 hours, and then held them all in contempt if they were one minute late.

Two weeks is a long time. If the Deep State can cook up an Obama birth certificate, Lord knows what else they can counterfeit when their butts are in a sling.
 

[rolling_stone]

actually by giving them 2 weeks he may have handed them the rope to hang themselves..imagine the conversations going on at Mueller’s team what to do? sure would be nice is friendlies had a fly on the wall to listen to their plans and get prepared to shoot them down.

[rolling_stone]

actually by giving them 2 weeks he may have handed them the rope to hang themselves..imagine the conversations going on at Mueller’s team what to do? sure would be nice is friendlies had a fly on the wall to listen to their plans and get prepared to shoot them down.

[LongWayHome]

Hey, there’s a picture of Jeff, being cuckolded.

[Fitzy_888]

Now you’ll be able to see periods, commas and semicolons.

[Parley Baer]

IMHO Rod Rosenstein is in deep trouble.

[Defiant]

Maybe they revised it.

[Tom Bombadil]

In the Mannafort hearing, Ellis brought up Rosenstein’s lack of recusal (he’s a witness). This could put the whole mueller thing at risk of being stopped by Ellis.

Ellis also insisted that a “main” justice lawyer be present and not just Mueller’s people. The lawyer most likely would have gone directly back to the Justice Department with a first hand description of what happened.

I am wondering if Ellis was sending a clear message directly to Rosenstein: “You stop this insanity now, or I will”

[Tom Bombadil]

See post #16

[Parley Baer]

Good possibility. Rosenstein himself is in a lot of legal jeopardy.

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(snips) --- (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today announced the Justice Department disclosed that it may soon provide the organization with additional, previously withheld material from the heavily redacted August 2 memorandum in which Rod Rosenstein granted broad authority to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, three months after Mueller’s appointment. The initial appointment memo, controversially, was written in May 2017. The Justice Department’s notice to Judicial Watch came almost immediately after the explosive District Court hearing in which Judge T.S. Ellis III demanded the full memorandum be made available to the court in two weeks, by May 18.

“We are pleased, especially after Judge Ellis’s hearing, that our lawsuit is causing the Justice Department to rethink its cover-up of the ‘scope memo’ for Mueller,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Judicial Watch has never before seen this level of secrecy and cover-up surrounding the operation of a special or independent counsel.”

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One more step ahead .... and R.R. is gonna be dumped soon.

[Parley Baer]

As stated I think this is the result of the Judge Ellis order for the unredacted version of the Rosenstein authority given to Mueller.