some unredactions from Mueller Report. epic.org/foia/doj/muell….
thus far, I haven't noticed anything startling.
2/ many of the redactions appear to be nothing more than bureaucratic obtuseness e.g. this redaction of footnote 187, which was nothing more than reference to a public DHS report.
3/ found something interesting. Will post up in an hour or two.
4/ many unredactions concern Appendix D, which discusses cases transferred or referred by Mueller. Mueller **transferred** nine cases, redacting identity and even transferee of only one case. Why? Identity revealed in new unredactions.
5/ but first, destination of 9 identified transfers (8 cases, Manafort sent to two places): 6 to DC, 2 to EDVA and one (the inactive Russian hackers case) to Western PA which specializes in hacking cases. Note that Manafort, Gates FARA was transferred to DC.
6/ the single transferred case in which identity was redacted pertained to Manafort and Gates activities in Ukraine, including FARA. But who was redacted (we can, of course, guess)? And why was transferee jurisdiction redacted?
7/ part of answer is obvious. Redacted targets are Podesta and Mercury Group (all of whom, from any external perspective, seem to have been involved same FARA violations as Manafort and Gates). Also redacted from commentary was former Obama official Greg Craig and FTI Consulting.
8/ but somewhat surprising is the redaction of Southern District of New York as the transferee of the Podesta FARA case, given that the facts are intimately connected to Manafort and Gates FARA case (transferred to DC). Plus Podesta and their company located in DC.
9/ given results, it's hard not to think that transfer of Podesta case to SDNY was part of the mechanism for deep-sixing the Podesta case (Democrat privilege) while prosecuting Manafort and Gates for more or less identical actions in regard to FARA.
10/ I wonder what Weissman and fellow thugs provided as the official rationalization for a separate destination for Podesta transfer.
11/ and what conceivable purpose would there be for redacting the transfer destination of the Podesta case, other than to prevent and deter public scrutiny of its burial?
12/ nearly all of the referrals were redacted. Exceptions were Cohen and Greg Craig/Skadden Arps (latter were collateral damage in Manafort-Ukraine). Two names unredacted.
13/ the two new referrals were Left Hand Enterprises, a supplier to Trump campaign, and Rebuilding America Now, a PAC that supported Trump. I presume that the other 10 still redacted referrals are also unidirectional colonoscopies of Trump campaign supporters, while
14/ leaving corresponding actions by Hillary campaign uninvestigated and uncolonoscopied.
15/ I'll bet that one of the redacted referrals from Mueller is Bannon's We Build the Wall.
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