'Circumstances have changed': DOJ ready for more Mueller report declassifications

By Jerry Dunleavy, Wash. Exam’r, July 21, 2020

More than a year after special counsel Robert Mueller’s report was released, the Justice Department has determined more of the redacted report can be declassified.

Civil division attorneys, including trial attorney Courtney Enlow, filed a four-page submission to a Washington, D.C., federal court on Tuesday, providing sealed responses to the judge’s questions about the redactions in Mueller's 448-page report and noting willingness to reveal more after a judge's ruling.

The response came after Judge Reggie Walton, a district court appointee of President George W. Bush who previously questioned Attorney General William Barr's "credibility" in the Freedom of Information Act case brought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center and BuzzFeed, provided the Justice Department a spreadsheet with questions about the redactions.

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