Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team isn't ready to share its information.
The special counsel's office asked the court Tuesday for extra time to respond to a request to unseal records in Paul Manafort’s criminal case.
The Washington Post filed the initial request before Judge Amy Berman Jackson, citing “the profound public interest in these proceedings,” in the motion that aims to release more information from the large number of sealed and redacted records in Manafort’s Washington case.
The deadline for Mueller’s team to respond was March 21, but in Tuesday’s two-page filing, Deputy Solicitor General Michael R. Dreeben and prosecutor Adam C. Jed wrote that it wants up to April 1 to respond to the filing.
“The counsel responsible for preparing the response face the press of other work and require additional time to consult within the government,” the motion reads, adding that the Washington Post did not oppose the motion to extend the deadline.
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Mullet doesn’t seem overly anxious to release documents related to Manafort’s prosecution.
It’s not hard to see where this is going to end up. There’s a hard press for Mullet’s report to be released. The assumption is that it will be damaging to Trump and/or provide the Resistance with something/anything to impeach Trump with.
Which was the whole point to this charade to begin with.
But the above assumption is dubious. There are likely things Mullet doesn’t want made public. And there are almost certainly things the FBI doesn’t want publicized—or at least made more publicized than what they already are lol.
So look for a lot of closed-door wrangling in Congress about what gets publicized from Mullet’s report and what doesn’t. And a whole lot of hiding behind the tired ‘methods and sources’ from both sides.
And the whole things ends with a whimper instead of a bang.
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