Is it clear if the DOJ attorneys are from the Special Counsel, or is it just Main Justice who is stating the Trump protective position, while otherwise trying to sabotage the Congressional Investigations and obstruct the Special Counsel’s?
Great question! This really gets to the heart of the issue.
The implication, I think, is that it’s DoJ, aka Sessions, aka trump, who is trying to keep the memos from being published. Mueller’s team wouldn’t directly have anything to do with this, I’d think.
These could be way more fun than Simpsons Fusion GPS testimony
Thanks for the response. However, the Comey contemporaneous memos dictated or written after the meetings where Trump attempted to influence and shut down an ongoing investigation, are probably evidence in the Mueller probe. So I suppose there could be some value in keeping them out of public view until that investigation has fully explored all relevant and related aspects and statements made to their investigators. But I think your implication is probably right.
Even if these memos are released, it won’t poison a potential jury pool. More people follow sports news than politics.
The DoJ standing policy on this matter, and I suspect it would be the same for Mueller’s obviously, is they prefer not to have the material metered out to the press in ongoing investigations at the choosing of anyone but themselves. More importantly, they prefer to present ALL the necessary evidence at the same time…not dribbled out here and there.
We know what will happen here. They are going to try to hang everyone on the Comey Memos, much like they did on the Steele Dossier, and hope they can find 1 single inconsistency and thus proclaim everything is a sham.
And for the record, Judicial Watch is a group that deserves to be burnt alive. Every last one of them.
I’m not so sure…as a counter point, I think Judicial Watch’s participation in this request might be a tell. If Trump/Sessions et al. wanted to keep it secret, I doubt JW would participate. Instead, I wonder it this is an attempt to see what Mueller has–but this is all just a guess.
Kind of states where we are in this country—felt I had to look up the judge. He was an Obama appointee, so I feel better now that a legally proper decision will be made.
I’m not sure I’d characterize this as a “Trump protective position” or “sabotaging Congressional Investigations and obstructing the SC.” Mueller has those memos. Disclosing them could very well undermine his investigation, and I really don’t give a crap what effect it might have on the so-called Congressional “investigations.” The documents should not be released under FOIA simply to allow us to satisfy our curiosity at this point. Let the investigation play out.
This is likely an attempt to release the Comey memos before Trump has to testify to Mueller, or order to aid him in avoiding getting caught in his usual denials and lies.
It seems unlikely to me that Christopher Wray does not already have access to those memos.
I assume this is just an attempt to avoid revealing, again, that the White House’s official line on a story is, you know, a lie.