But the judge, Naham notes, has "made clear that he has some questions that the DOJ cannot answer remotely. U.S. District Judge …
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"When asked if he had spoken to the President about the allegation that he had lied to Congress, Stone said, 'I have not' and added, 'When the President answered the written interrogatories, he correctly and honestly said, 'Roger Stone and I never discussed this and we never did. Mueller concluded that Trump may have lied to investigators in his written answers to questions in the investigation.
U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton criticized how Attorney General William Barr handled redactions in the report delivered by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III last year, saying there were big discrepancies between what Barr said in public about the findings and the partially-redacted version of the report that was released to the public. the status conference currently scheduled for June 18, 2020, is VACATED. . But when the department still didn't release a less redacted version of the Mueller report even after Stone's sentencing in February, which effectively closed his case, BuzzFeed News filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to compel the DOJ to release the information. WASHINGTON (CN) — A federal judge in Washington on Thursday ordered the Justice Department to provide him an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, citing Attorney General William Barr’s “lack of candor” in public descriptions of the document before it was released. Walton said such representations cast into doubt whether DOJ can be trusted that the redactions made to the Mueller report don't undermine Barr's case defending the president's behavior. The DOJ said it redacted information pertaining to Stone to protect the criminal proceedings surrounding his prosecution. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, according to Law & Crime's Matt Naham, has ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to answer questions "regarding certain redactions of the Mueller Report" at a hearing now set for July 20. . Multiple top Trump campaign aides told investigators that Trump himself, then the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, knew WikiLeaks had information that would hurt the Clinton campaign, the report said. The Justice Department on Friday released a new, less redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on his investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 US election. Mueller's team "established that the Trump Campaign displayed interest in the WikiLeaks releases, and that former Campaign member Roger Stone was in contact with the Campaign about those releases, claiming advance knowledge of more to come," the report said.
But the Mueller report is still a compelling read, and a federal judge is demanding some answers after confirming, on June 8, that he has read an unredacted version of the lengthy document.
The judge sharply rebuked Attorney General William Barr's handling of the special counsel's report and called his public statements “misleading” and distorted. Attorney General Bill Barr announces measures against online sexual exploitation, March 5, 2020, during a press conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC. Then chairman Paul Manafort, deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates, and personal attorney Michael Cohen told investigators that Stone told Trump and several advisers in July 2016 that he had spoken with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and that the website would begin dumping documents in just a few days. Law.com is reporting that a federal judge has just obtained the full unredacted Mueller Report, meaning the judge now knows all of the secrets that Donald Trump and Bill Barr were so desperate to keep buried: DOJ turns over unredacted Mueller report to US District Judge …
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