Released Text Messages and Emails Show Mueller Team’s Cozy Relationship With Press
By The Daily Caller. Hundreds of pages of emails and text messages released from the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) special counsel’s office through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show an ongoing relationship between Robert Mueller’s team and the press, according to an investigation by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
The documents, released in September, span months of communication and include messages from reporters ranging from a variety of outlets, including TheDCNF, The Washington Post and BuzzFeed.
While the vast majority of correspondences between Mueller’s spokesman Peter Carr and a variety of journalists ends with a “no comment,” the messages expose Mueller’s team was willing to meet with a number of reporters in private meetings and over the phone.
Coordinating such meetings cuts against the narrative that the special counsel has been hesitant to give information to the press, instead opting to give information only through public announcements and statements.
The New York Times ran a story in August poking fun at the secrecy of the special counsel, with one reporter writing that Carr’s “‘no comment’ replies have become a running dark joke among the Washington press corps.” (Read more from “Released Text Messages and Emails Show Mueller Team’s Cozy Relationship With Press” HERE)
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Gowdy: Declassified Documents Unlikely to Change Anyone’s Mind on Russia Investigation
By The Hill. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said Sunday that the documents President Trump ordered declassified related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation are unlikely to change anyone’s views on the probe.
Gowdy said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that “99.9 percent” of the documents Trump ordered declassified are unrelated to the president.
“I generally am on the side of transparency, with the caveat do nothing that jeopardizes national security or impacts our relationship with our allies,” said Gowdy, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
“I’ve seen all of it, and with the exception of one document, I don’t think anybody’s mind is going to be changed when they read this stuff,” he added.
The White House last Monday said the president had ordered the Justice Department and Office of the Director of National Intelligence to declassify and release a series of documents related to the Russia probe “at the request of a number of committees of Congress and for reasons of transparency.” (Read more from “Gowdy: Declassified Documents Unlikely to Change Anyone’s Mind on Russia Investigation” HERE)
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