Mueller Memo Advising Barr on Trump Findings Is Ordered Released
- DOJ must release memo guiding Barr on handling report on Trump
- Appeals court upholds judge who found DOJ description was off
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The US Justice Department must release a 2019 memo advising then-attorney general Bill Barr on how to handle the conclusion of the Mueller investigation and the department’s decision not to charge Donald Trump, a federal appeals court ruled.
The 3-0 decision Friday, by a panel of judges of the appeals court in Washington, upholds a lower court that ordered the department to make the March 2019 document public after finding that DOJ lawyers failed to accurately describe it from the start.