For reasons that have "puzzled" a judge - among others - The Department of Justice (DOJ) has been covering up information regarding an illegal investigation undertaken by the Trump regime.
The Judge who ordered the sealed records released today was "puzzled" that the Biden DOJ hadn't already published them.
Here's what we know:
-- The Trump Justice Department fought to secretly obtain the records of journalists from two additional outlets, two lawmakers on The House Intelligence Committee, and even former White House counsel Don McGahn.
-- Trump pushed AG Barr right up until his last days in office, to investigate his enemies.
-- The concealed files offered new details about the DOJ investigation, including how late into Barr's tenure records were pursued, and how the agency suspected Congressional staff might have been the sources for the information leaks in Trump's administration.
Here's two of the stories that spurred Trump and his minions to Illegally Investigate:
-- Jared Kushner had discussed using Russian facilities for backchannel communications with the Kremlin
-- Former AG Jeff Session had discussed campaign matters with then-Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak.
The filings also show the Biden administration was fighting to keep the records concealed right up until The Washington Post broke the news story that their reporters were involved in an illegal government search against them.
The DOJ's weak reasoning for stalling was that the records contained "non-public investigative and witness information."
As magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui pointed out today, the investigation is closed now that Trump's gone, and they have a duty to make the records available to the public.
In the decision Faruqui wrote, "The government's anti-redaxer stance is puzzling. The administrative burden of doing its job is no escape hatch from completing this task {releasing records to the public}."
What happens next is uncertain.
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