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Missing: Key Docs On Alleged Misconduct By Mueller’s Lead Prosecutor thefederalist.com/2019/01/14/mis…

Andrew Weissmann, the lead prosecutor for Robert Mueller, has a history of questionable conduct. But the full extent of Weissmann’s alleged prosecutorial misconduct is unclear because some of the most serious charges were hidden behind redactions and in in sealed court filings.

Over the holidays, though, the court entered an “amended notice,” announcing that after “a full and exhaustive” search by the clerk, certain court filings “were unrecoverable in their original or un-redacted form,”....

... including the unredacted copy of the joint motion to dismiss and the supporting memorandum. Also missing from the court record was the government’s unredacted response to this motion, which likely would have included the full text—or relevant portions—of the Weissmann email.

It's now clear that the records are gone for good, when Judge Lake’s case manager said that in addition to conducting a “full and exhaustive search of the Houston Division’s records,” search requests had been “made with the Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals...

AND and the National Archives,” and that four records were unrecoverable.

The DOJ also does not have copies of the records, having told Judge Lake after conducting its own review that it was unable to locate physical or electronic copies of the records.

There is no excuse for these records to be missing, even with the lapse of time.

The judiciary maintains court records years after convictions are final, and has detailed procedures to track the location of the files, with the staff responsible for maintaining the records documenting who transferred what to whom, and when, and what was returned,.

Also, in this case the district court still held a majority of the documents requested—so many, in fact, that after receiving four thick binders full of records, the DOJ filed a second motion for an extension of time to reply to the motion to unredact the documents.

Now we may never know exactly what transpired when Weissmann oversaw the Enron prosecution.

“The third branch of government functions best with proper oversight,” attorney Fulton stressed, upon learning that the records no longer exist.

Efforts to obtain the remaining documents continue.

: By the end of January the DOJ must respond to the motion to unredact the records that haven’t gone missing. The remaining documents, however, are unlikely to provide additional insight into Weissmann’s questionable conduct in the Enron case.

Consequently, Weissmann will likely remain Mueller’s “pit bull,” because without the missing documents prompting a public outcry, nothing is likely to change--

—especially since Mueller led the FBI at the time of the Enron prosecutions and was surely well aware of Weissmann’s modus operandi when he brought him on board as his lead prosecutor. It is facts like these that lead many to question the integrity of the special counsel probe.