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brooklynite

(93,878 posts)
Wed May 23, 2018, 11:22 PM May 2018

Mueller fights media access to secret court filings

Source: Politico

Special counsel Robert Mueller is fighting a drive by media organizations to unseal secret court filings relating to searches and surveillance efforts undertaken as part of the investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election.

While lawyers for President Donald Trump have suggested in recent weeks that the inquiry appears to be winding down, Mueller’s prosecutors submitted a court filing on Wednesday that painted a very different picture of an investigation that is moving forward on multiple fronts and could be jeopardized by premature disclosure of the records sought by news outlets.

“The Special Counsel’s investigation is not a closed matter, but an ongoing criminal investigation with multiple lines of non-public inquiry,” prosecutors wrote in a brief submitted to U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson. “The investigation consists of multiple lines of inquiry within the overall scope of the Special Counsel’s authority. Many aspects of the investigation are factually and legally interconnected: they involve overlapping courses of conduct, relationships, and events, and they rely on similar sources, methods, and techniques. The investigation is not complete and its details remain non-public.”

While Mueller’s inquiry has now been underway for more than a year and the FBI was investigating even earlier, none of a slew of search warrants, surveillance requests and similar filings have been officially unsealed by the courts. However, defense lawyers for Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, have made public some details on two search warrants they have challenged in the criminal cases against their client.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/23/mueller-media-secret-filings-607111

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Mueller fights media access to secret court filings (Original Post) brooklynite May 2018 OP
You know,if the so called Media was this agressive Wellstone ruled May 2018 #1
If they just reported just one aspect of it.... SergeStorms May 2018 #2
Thanks for the comment. Wellstone ruled May 2018 #6
True, dat. n/t malthaussen May 2018 #3
I wonder whether reporting on Mueller's probe is a lazy substitute for Qutzupalotl May 2018 #5
Your Post goes in the right direction. Wellstone ruled May 2018 #7
Every criminal defence attorney in the country would love to Fred Sanders May 2018 #4
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. You know,if the so called Media was this agressive
Wed May 23, 2018, 11:32 PM
May 2018

reporting on all the Crap the Trump Crime Syndicate was up to,then we would have the answers as to when we can expect Donnie the Con is leaving the Oval Office.

SergeStorms

(18,904 posts)
2. If they just reported just one aspect of it....
Thu May 24, 2018, 02:57 AM
May 2018

say....the emoluments clause, and Trump's total failure to abide by it, the American public would be aware of how totally cavalier Trump is to the laws of the country. I'm not holding my breath though. The major media (except for MSNBC) has been giving the Orange Shit Weasel a total pass, just like they have since day one of his primary campaign. Let's not even discuss FOX, which has become nothing less than State run propaganda 24/7.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
6. Thanks for the comment.
Thu May 24, 2018, 01:01 PM
May 2018

You are on the track that everyone in this country needs to follow.

Have been venting about the Media's Complicity in protecting their interests in electing the present Government which is raping out Nation for Corporate Profit.

So many themes of the Thirties are running beneath the surface of our Nation.

Mr. Clapper said it best two nights ago, Trump is a Illegal President.

As to the Media,Remember who are the Executives of these Media Companies and their association to the Trump Crime Syndicate. Who were the players in the creation of the Apprentice,in that answers anyone's questions.

Qutzupalotl

(14,230 posts)
5. I wonder whether reporting on Mueller's probe is a lazy substitute for
Thu May 24, 2018, 12:42 PM
May 2018

media outlets doing their own reporting and research.

Or put another way: Why do your own investigation when you can blow up Mueller’s?

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
4. Every criminal defence attorney in the country would love to
Thu May 24, 2018, 11:17 AM
May 2018

get their hands on every confidential informants name and history and the sealed informations to obtain warrants.

Never mind the entire criminal justice system would come crashing down.

No judge will permit this disclosure, it is all for show and consumption by the right wing cult the right wing politicos and media have created and must feed constantly with lies and distractions and conspiracy theories. Sad.

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