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| Court Ruling Implies That Barr Must Redact Grand-Jury Info from Mueller Report |
| 2019-04-07 |
| Recent DC Circuit Court ruling affirms the DOJ rule 6(e) of keeping Grand Jury (GJ) transcripts secret. This is a knife in the eye of onerous Nadler, Schiff twins, and all the other socialist Dems that want the full, unredacted Mueller report released. AG Barr holds the 'high ground' in redacting GJ material. [NR] Democrats will piss & moan, but the attorney general can’t be faulted for following the law. In disclosing the Mueller report, Attorney General William P. Barr will have to redact grand-jury information. That is the upshot of the ruling today by a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. I flagged this case, now called McKeever v. Barr (formerly McKeever v. Sessions), last week. It did not arise out of the Mueller investigation, but it obviously has significant ramifications for the Mueller report ‐ in particular, how much of it we will get to see. At issue was this question: Does a federal court have the authority to order disclosure of grand-jury materials if the judge decides that the interests of justice warrant doing so; or is the judge limited to the exceptions to grand-jury secrecy that are spelled out in Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure? The D.C. Circuit’s McKeever ruling holds that the text of Rule 6(e) controls. Consequently, judges have no authority to authorize disclosure outside the rule. This is significant for the Mueller report because Rule 6(e) does not contain an exception to secrecy that would permit disclosure to Congress. The case involves a writer, Stuart McKeever, who was researching a book on the disappearance of Columbia University professor Jesús de Galíndez Suárez in 1956. It was suspected that Galíndez, a very public critic of Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo, was kidnapped and flown to the D.R., where he was murdered. In the course of a federal investigation, suspicion fell on John Joseph Frank, a former FBI agent and CIA lawyer, who later worked for Trujillo. Frank was eventually prosecuted for failing to register as a foreign agent but never charged with any involvement in Galíndez’s murder. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 ^ Or mooncrazed batty. Or something. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Shoulder pads on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've OMGed and WTFed at sparkling jimmies on artisanal cupcakes. All those moments will be lost in time like Marx in crema. Time to dance." |
| Posted by: Spulet Hupuling3349 2019-04-07 23:59 |
| #6 Methinks their base is moonbat crazy |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2019-04-07 22:59 |
| #5 "the attorney general can’t be faulted for following the law." Oh yes he can. And he is, and will continue to be, so long as it motivates the base. |
| Posted by: james 2019-04-07 14:36 |
| #4 That's OK as long as the dims can make it look like Trump is hiding something. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-04-07 14:29 |
| #3 The Dems will push on something totally unlawful until they get their a$$es handed to them, so they go on to something else, like packing the SCOTUS. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2019-04-07 14:02 |
| #2 ...hell, they haven't even read the Constitution. You can tell by their comments. Grand Jury is an investigation tool. You can get a lot of hearsay and uncorroborated information that is not admissible in due process. We got that for two years from the Legacy Infotainment Enterprises. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-04-07 08:37 |
| #1 Sometimes I genuinely wonder if the freshman in congress are aware that there were other sessions of congress before them. They passed laws about things like privacy at the IRS, and secrecy about Grand Juries. It often seems like they believe they are the first session of congress and have no precedents or previously passed laws that apply to them. |
| Posted by: Beau 2019-04-07 01:14 |