The Justice Department announced on Friday that redactions in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report related to longtime Trump associate Roger Stone may be lifted by next week now that his criminal case has concluded.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center and BuzzFeed’s Jason Leopold filed Freedom of Information Act lawsuits for the full, unredacted Mueller report last spring in a case assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton. Last month, EPIC and BuzzFeed argued that some of the justifications for the redactions in Mueller’s report no longer applied after Stone was convicted and sentenced. In a two-page notice signed by DOJ trial attorney Courtney Enlow, the DOJ suggested on Friday that it might agree and that it would be reassessing the many Stone-related redactions quickly.
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