A federal judge ruled Thursday that some of the Freedom of Information Act exemptions cited by the Justice Department to justify redactions in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report were improper and ordered the agency to make certain censored sections public before the November election.
Judge Reggie Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, an appointee of former President George W. Bush who has reviewed an unredacted version of Mueller’s 448-page report, issued a lengthy 40-page opinion on Wednesday ruling that most of the redactions were adequately justified but that some were not. This includes redactions on sections about the thought process behind the criminal charging decisions in connection to what Mueller’s team deemed was the Russian military intelligence hack of email systems belonging to former Secretary of State Hillary’s Clinton’s 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The ruling is the latest decision in a FOIA lawsuit brought by Buzzfeed and the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
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