Judge Amy Berman Jackson is unsealing and releasing documents from the Paul Manafort case this AM. Here's one doc she just released with fewer black boxes than when it first came out back in December 2018.
Here's a side-by-side of the two versions and what was previously redacted re. Manafort's lies about his contacts with Konstantin Kilimnik:
New version on left released today; old version on right released back in Dec 2018:
New version on left; old version from Dec 2018 on right
Old version w/ redactions on left from Dec 2018; New version released today w/o redactions on right
Last two pages of this Mueller didn't have any redactions the first go around.
For some context on this particular document here's a flashback to a story I wrote on the day the original came out back in the heat of the Manafort saga in Dec 2018 w/ @joshgerstein politico.com/story/2018/12/…
And here's a link to the original redacted version: static.politico.com/0d/5d/d2103a3d…
We wrote last week about the prospect that many Trump-era mysteries like this could come roaring back into the headlines. Here's the story from @cryanbarber & @cdechalus ($) in @thisisinsider businessinsider.com/trump-biden-mu…
Yep, sorry I got my left and right mixed up there on this 1 specific tweet. Old version on left from Dec 18 and new one w/o redactions released today is on the right.
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