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FOIA News: DOJ must release more Mueller report info, court rules

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Judge orders DOJ to publish info redacted as privileged from Mueller report

By Harper Neidig, The Hill, Sept. 30, 2020

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to publish information redacted from the Mueller report that had been designated as privileged.

District Judge Reggie Walton said the Trump administration had failed to justify certain redactions from the report on the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The specific redactions he took issue with cover the decisionmaking process within former special counsel Robert Mueller's team over whether to charge certain people with crimes during the probe.

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