Attorney General Barr has been receiving scathing criticism from the left, but now he is getting attacked by a Bush-appointed judge.
Judge Reggie Walton slammed Barr, even questioning his integrity, while presiding over a case by Buzzfeed and EPIC to obtain an unredacted copy of the Mueller report.
Slamming Barr
Walton could have asked to review the Mueller report himself before slamming Barr, but he chose to take a more liberal approach.
Without seeing the unredacted version himself, Walton dressed down Barr in front of the entire nation.
Judge Walton wrote, “The inconsistencies between Attorney General Barr’s statements, made at a time when the public did not have access to the redacted version of the Mueller Report to assess the veracity of his statements, and portions of the redacted version of the Mueller Report that conflict with those statements cause the Court to seriously question whether Attorney General Barr made a calculated attempt to influence public discourse about the Mueller Report in favor of President Trump despite certain findings in the redacted version of the Mueller Report to the contrary.
“The speed by which Attorney General Barr released to the public the summary of Special Counsel Mueller’s principal conclusions, coupled with the fact that Attorney General Barr failed to provide a thorough representation of the findings set forth in the Mueller Report, causes the Court to question whether Attorney General Barr’s intent was to create a one-sided narrative about the Mueller Report—a narrative that is clearly in some respects substantively at odds with the redacted version of the Mueller Report.
“The Court has grave concerns about the objectivity of the process that preceded the public release of the redacted version of the Mueller Report and its impacts on the Department’s subsequent justifications that its redactions of the Mueller Report are authorized by the FOIA.
“These circumstances generally, and Attorney General Barr’s lack of candor specifically, call into question Attorney General Barr’s credibility.”
Now, we know the Mueller report has national security implications, so it is not likely Walton will allow Buzzfeed and EPIC completely unredacted copies of the report.
That will, however, not stop him from ripping Barr if he believes Barr’s summation of the report does not agree with his own.
The DOJ Response
After Walton issued his statement, the DOJ immediately responded.
The statement read:
“Yesterday afternoon, a district court issued an order on the narrow legal question of whether it should review the unredacted special counsel’s confidential report to confirm the report had been appropriately redacted under the Freedom of Information Act.
“In the course of deciding that it would review the unredacted report, the court made a series of assertions about public statements the attorney general made nearly a year ago.
“The court’s assertions were contrary to the facts.”
We would expect a new statement on this issue in the coming days by Walton.
What can you expect from a man, who just happens to be black, to make such a statement. A judge selected by a RINO.
BARR HAS EVERY RIGHT TO A UNREDACTED VERISON OF THE MULLER REPORT WHAT ARE YOU ALL SCARED OF? CORRUPTION ALL OVER!!!