Thread by @kpolantz

I've spent the last 4 days combing through new documents released by DOJ related to the Mueller report, and revisiting the Mueller Report itself.
Here's where coverage started, with a 3rd batch of Mueller 302s released through CNN & Buzzfeed's FOIA suit: cnn.com/2020/01/02/pol…

The thing that keeps jumping out at me: What Mueller investigated still matters--regarding both foreign influence in US politics and the President's behavior.
And there's still a lot that DOJ refuses to share. Redactions, exemptions, etc.

Almost perfect timing that on Friday, DOJ argued at the DC Circuit that Don McGahn is protected from testifying to Congress about Trump obstruction attempts, and that the House shouldn't see Mueller's grand jury redactions.

We still haven't seen ANY McGahn 302s.

The House won both the McGahn and Mueller GJ material cases at the trial-court level, but the DC Circuit hasn't decided yet what to do.
To paraphrase a comment from Judge Rogers during the oral argument about GJ redactions: One sentence could reveal a lot.
cnn.com/2020/01/03/pol…

So then: On Friday DOJ also gives to CNN and Buzzfeed the list of all the witness interview memos (called 302s) used in the Mueller investigation.

1003 memos in total.
644 names redacted. cnn.com/2020/01/03/pol…

Every 302 cited in the Mueller report itself appears to be publicly disclosed on Friday's list from DOJ.

Yet at least 30 interviews documented on our Russia Tracker (via @MarshallCohen) don't appear on the DOJ's list. Are these some of the redactions?
cnn.com/interactive/20…

@MarshallCohen The list of interviews Mueller conducted still reveals a lot, even with all its redactions.

Such as: Mueller's busiest month interviewing witnesses was May 2018.

Some number crunching from the data released Friday:

@MarshallCohen Mueller team's most prolific months were November 2017 and February 2018. Here's the chart of # of pages of 302s produced by month.

Nov '17 happened to be start of Manafort & Gates in open court, and Flynn plea deal.
Feb '18 was Gates' plea, and indictment of the troll farm

@MarshallCohen Back to redactions
We're not the only ones fighting for access to more about the Mueller investigation.
@washingtonpost lawsuit produced this response today, saying that DOJ is getting ready to share more about Manafort's cooperation going bust
cnn.com/2020/01/05/pol…

@MarshallCohen @washingtonpost Could what happened with Manafort still matter post-Mueller?

One thing Manafort lied about was discussions about Ukraine with his Russian associate in 2017 and 2018.

On this, Mueller reminded us that he never got to the bottom of what Manafort was up to.

Mueller report pg 130:

"We all know that a single sentence can be devastating and can lead to both exculpatory and incriminating evidence."
-Judge Judith Rogers about Mueller report redactions on Friday. Relevant on more than Mueller.

Listen at 23:00 here:
cadc.uscourts.gov/recordings/rec…