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Government lawyers want a federal judge to block the release of memos written by former FBI Director James Comey about his conversations with President Trump, claiming that disclosing the documents would be “detrimental” to an investigation into Russian interference in the presidential campaign as well as an ongoing obstruction of justice probe.

The attorneys made the argument in a court filing submitted late Friday in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed for the Comey memos by several news organizations, including The Daily Caller News Foundation, CNN, and USA Today.

The lawsuit sought the release of all of the memos that Comey wrote following his encounters with President Trump. Comey, who was fired by Trump on May 9, has testified that he wrote the memos following in-person meetings and phone conversations with Trump.

Just after his ouster, Comey gave a memo he wrote on Feb. 14 — just after the firing of national security adviser Michael Flynn — to a friend with instructions to leak it to The New York Times. Comey says he wrote in that memo that Trump asked him to shut down an investigation into Flynn.

Comey testified in June that he gave the document to his friend, a Columbia Law School professor, because he wanted to force the appointment of a special investigator to continue the probe into Russian interference in the campaign. On May 17, Comey’s predecessor, Robert Mueller, was appointed special counsel.

Mueller is reportedly investigating the circumstances surrounding both the Comey and Flynn firings.

The government’s attorneys argued in Friday’s court filing that releasing the Comey documents could “reveal the scope and focus of the investigation and thereby harm the investigation” and potential prosecutions.

The lawyers suggested in their filing that an FBI employee could testify before U.S. District Judge James Boasberg about why Comey’s memos are so sensitive.

“Publicly explaining in any greater detail why the release of the Comey Memos would be detrimental to the pending investigation would itself disclose law enforcement sensitive information that could interfere with the pending investigation,” the government lawyers wrote.

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yeah right - they just don't want the public to know what we've(conservatives) have been saying all along is true



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Isn’t that conflict of interest? Government lawyers requesting federal (government) judge to withhold info from public?




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Originally posted by konata88:
Isn’t that conflict of interest? Government lawyers requesting federal (government) judge to withhold info from public?


Hardly. Since all judges are government employees, how could the government ever appear in any court?

This is one reason why life during good behavior is appropriate. The judge need not fear retribution for decisions.

If there is a specific factor in a given situation, you challenge the judge and another judge hears the case. Example, a close relative of a judge is a government attorney. Justice Tom Clark retired from the Supreme Court to clear the way for his son to become Attorney General, which would have created an intolerable conflict. Justice Clark would have had to recuse himself from nearly every case.




Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
 
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