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In 1989, Barr refused to release a damning DOJ memo to Congress, instead, only providing a “summary of principal conclusions” [sound familiar?] that omitted "some of the most consequential & incendiary conclusions." #BarrCoverUp
by @rgoodlaw @just_security
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Per @rgoodlaw: "Barr’s efforts in 1989 did not serve the Justice Dept well...when the OLC opinion was finally made public, it's true content, given what Barr told the American people and testified before Congress, remains much to his discredit."
WATCH: Law professor @rgoodlaw details Barr's duplicitous actions to bury the truth or mischaracterize it to Congress & the American people in 1989. Barr won't bat an eye at tarnishing his "reputation" by doing the same thing again.
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“I count on the Democrats to pursue all conceivable legal/authorized ways for Congress to get the [full] report. If and after those all fail, it sounds like something that would be appropriate and even mandatory to leak.” -Pentagon Papers leaker [whistleblower] Daniel Ellsberg.
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NEW: Congressional investigators on Monday issued subpoenas to Deutsche and numerous other banks, including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America, seeking information about Trump’s finances and the lenders’ business dealings with Russians.
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1989:
Barr’s Playbook: He Misled Congress When Omitting Parts of Justice Dep’t Memo justsecurity.org/63635/barrs-pl… via @just_security
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Friday the thirteenth October 1989, by happenstance the same day as the “Black Friday” market crash, news leaked of a legal memo authored by William Barr. He was then serving as head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).
It is highly uncommon for any OLC memo to make headlines. This one did because it was issued in “unusual secrecy” and concluded that the FBI could forcibly abduct people in other countries without the consent of the foreign state. latimes.com/archives/la-xp…
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Barr’s Playbook: He Misled Congress When Omitting Parts of Justice Dep’t Memo in 1989 justsecurity.org/63635/barrs-pl… via @just_security
On Friday the thirteenth October 1989, by happenstance the same day as the “Black Friday” market crash, news leaked of a legal memo authored by William Barr. He was then serving as head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).
It is highly uncommon for any OLC memo to make headlines. This one did because it was issued in “unusual secrecy” and concluded that the FBI could forcibly abduct people in other countries without the consent of the foreign state.
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Barr in calling out media’s mischaracterization of his “summary of principal conclusions” of Mueller report as the “full summary” says the public will be able to read the report on its own (which will likely be redacted, per federal law, and to protect intel sources/methods).
2. AG Barr says there are no plans to run the report by the White House for a privilege review. (As POTUS, Trump has right to assert privilege over certain parts of the report but has said he’ll defer to Barr and let him decide what to release).
3. When the report is released, public will be able to glean the gap created by media coverage and expectations stoked by lawmakers from both parties; we’ll be able to discern how much the likes of Nunes, Schiff, Feinstein, Schumer, Meadows spun what they knew about the probe.
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Ryan Goodman
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THIS

#Barr reply to @SenBlumenthal

“There are two different reports…Under the current regulations, the special counsel report is confidential. The report that goes public would be a report by the Attorney General.”

Opposite of reassuring that he'll make Mueller report public.
Senator @maziehirono follows up

"What I am hearing you saying is that...neither Congress nor public will get the Mueller report because that's confidential."

#Barr dodges: will release information "consistent with the regulations"—regulations which he says make it confidential!
Bingo

@SenFeinstein's precise followup:

"There is nothing in the regulations that prevent you from providing Mueller's report to Congress…the regs do not state that confidentiality means the report cannot be provided to Congress…Will you provide Mueller's report to Congress?"
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