In Russia inquiry’s battle between privacy vs. transparency, both sides now win

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit did a superb job on Tuesday in ordering disclosure of a few more pieces of the Mueller report into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Writing on behalf of Democratic appointees David Tatel and Harry Edwards, Republican appointee Karen LeCraft Henderson carefully delineated which parts of the report should be newly released and which should remain redacted. Her decision’s law and logic were models of clarity and faithfulness to statutory text.

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