BREAKING: JW announced DOJ may soon provide new info from the redacted August 2nd memo in which Rod Rosenstein gave broad authority to Special Counsel Mueller. The memo was controversially written three months after Mueller’s May 2017 appointment. (1/5)
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The Justice Dept notice to JW came almost immediately after the explosive District Court hearing for Paul Manafort in which Judge T.S. Ellis III demanded that the full Special Counsel memo be made available to the court within two weeks by May 18th. (2/5)
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In a May 4th response to JW's FOIA lawsuit, DOJ said it is “processing the August 2nd memo to determine if it can release additional portions that have not already been filed publicly.” DOJ had previously refused to say any such “scope” docs exist. (3/5)
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Judicial Watch President @TomFitton: “We are pleased, especially after Judge T.S. Ellis’s hearing, that our lawsuit is causing the Justice Department to rethink its cover-up of the ‘scope memo’ for Special Counsel Robert Mueller.” (4/5)
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Judicial Watch President @TomFitton: “Judicial Watch has never seen this level of secrecy and cover-up surrounding the operation of a special or independent counsel.” (5/5)
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