It seems patience is a virtue…perhaps a push for disclosure at this time could reveal information necessary to the building of a case against some unknown (publicly) bad actors.
Well, as a member of the public, they are not speaking for me. I’m quite satisfied with Mueller’s methodical and “crossed Ts” approach. Sometimes, with these newsy and pressy sorts of people, I’m never sure whether the primary motive is truly informing the public or just titillating the public.
Does being sealed mean that the defense can’t see them, or they the defense can see but not disclose them. If the latter, I would assume the documents are sealed to protect ongoing investigations, and will be unsealed at the appropriate time, I suppose when entered into evidence in a trial or when a plea agreement is reached.
deserve less privacy than ordinary citizens due to their high-profile and public roles
I don’t see that these news organizations filed suit to see Trump’s tax returns, but this argument would seem to apply there…
Infotainment all the way.
Wonder why Fox News didn’t join the pleading?
I’m wondering if unsealing the Manafort documents would tip off other perpetraitors who would quickly fire Mueller if they fully understood the strength of the case against Manafort and how it reveals their case against other racketeers within the trump syndicate.
Me too.
While I’d love to see the details involved, it’s more important to me that the bad guys get caught no matter how long that takes.
Well said.
I mean, on a gut level, I think Manafort is an unprincipled odious bag of scum who has had a long and profitable career serving the interests of some really nasty characters, and that the level of privacy that he deserves is to be put in the stocks.
What this is really about, though, is what damage the public disclosure of this information would do to the ongoing investigation. That’s for the court to decide.
Press needs to back the hell off, you don’t interfere with ongoing investigations.
This is just journalists doing their job. The court won’t unseal unless it rules that it is constitutionally necessary and operationally appropriate to do so.
Doubtless, the court must also weigh the perpetrator’s interest in avoiding tar and feathering – and, the volatiles might interfere with the proper operation of his ankle bracelets.
Really, it strikes me as an ill considered request, given the power of possible unindicted coconspirators, the possibility of compromising the investigation and the lack of any rational basis for assuming that Mueller’s work is in any way compromised.
They will be fighting to keep it secret.
Well, we can all be quite sure that if these news organizations are successful and do have the court documents unsealed, the contents of said documents will never be discussed on FoxNews, since they will be too busy with their breathless reporting of panda rape.
I trust Mueller to this point. I can wait a bit longer for all the things the AP seems to think I want to know.
It’s not to see the media doing the job they should have done in 2014-2016 in uncovering who and what made up the Trump campaign, but they need to keep the public’s actual interest in mind, which is seeing these criminals properly and lawfully investigated and charged with an unbiased/untainted jury pool.
When I read the headline I assumed the organizations were Fox, Breitbart and Sinclair.
I could argue that they might want it in the open in order to disrupt the ongoing investigations into the Trump campaign.