Mueller Report Redactions on Roger Stone Are Revealed

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Source: The New York Times

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department released information on Friday about President Trump’s friend and former campaign adviser Roger J. Stone Jr. that it had previously redacted from the report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

The newly disclosed material dealt largely with efforts by the Trump campaign to discover what material WikiLeaks had obtained that could be damaging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Mr. Stone was at the forefront of the campaign’s effort to contact WikiLeaks, the chosen repository of Russian government for a trove of Clinton campaign emails and other documents that its operatives stole in an attempt to boost Mr. Trump’s election chances.

When the Mueller report was released last year, the Justice Department withheld information about Mr. Stone’s efforts to serve as an intermediary with WikiLeaks, in order, it said, to protect a continuing criminal case against him on charges of lying to investigators and witness tampering. But a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a watchdog group, and the BuzzFeed News journalist Jason Leopold challenged those and other redactions as violations of the Freedom of Information Act.

The department’s decision to release more of the text of the report came after the federal judge overseeing that case, Judge Reggie B. Walton of the District of Columbia, expressed suspicion about whether the redactions were justified and ordered government lawyers to provide him with the full report so he could review the redactions himself.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/us/politics/mueller-report-redactions-roger-stone.html

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Reggie B. Walton, a George W. Bush nominee, began his service nearly two weeks after 9/11.

[Botany]

1. Friday night news dump

"The newly disclosed material dealt largely with efforts by the Trump campaign to discover what material WikiLeaks had obtained that could be damaging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Mr. Stone was at the forefront of the campaign’s effort to contact WikiLeaks, the chosen repository of Russian government for a trove of Clinton campaign emails and other documents that its operatives stole in an attempt to boost Mr. Trump’s election chances."

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7. 2 factions. idiots like trump who believed limbaugh and the ones who needed the emails so

they could take them out of context and blast them all over the country for months and years. clinton knew it and

wikileaks also was supplier of the global-warming-is a hoax hack of east anglia climate scientists

do the unredacted parts include mention of hannity, who was redacted in the glossary. Or talk radio?

in what part of the redactions does hannity appear (redacted in glossary between graf and hawker)? use of radio? real estate deals and wife cheating don't rate mueller redactions. it's about russian use of talk radio - like when we used the 'voice of america' to destroy soviet propaganda efforts around the world. putin would want revenge. all he had to do was figure out how to feed limbaugh.

and now the cons are taking down the original voice of america and replacing it with more putin

[sandensea]

2. As expected, NONE of the redactions were based on 'national security' or anything remotely legit

But rather, Cheeto's personal interest - as represented by a mafia consigliere (Jabba-the-Barr).

Thank you, Judge Walton!

[marble falls]

3. Why isn't Roger in jail yet?

[Zoonart]

4. Must report to serve in June 30.

[MontanaMama]

5. Can we expect a pardon that very day?

[iluvtennis]

6. Sure hope not. Been waiting for this POS to go to prison since he was found GUILTY in Nov '19. nt

[czarjak]

8. When will we be told something we don't already know?