Anonymous ID: 3701ad May 23, 2019, 8:23 p.m. No.6574506   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.americanoversight.org/flashback-the-first-time-robert-mueller-wrote-memos-to-william-barr-about-special-counsel-investigations

 

American Oversight filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the National Archives and Records Administration, seeking long-filed-away documents from Barr’s prior service as attorney general during the first Bush administration, when Robert Mueller served as assistant attorney general. Our investigators received nine boxes containing thousands of pages of documents, including memos from Mueller to Barr with his recommendations on whether to appoint independent counsels to investigate various matters.

Anonymous ID: 3701ad May 23, 2019, 8:33 p.m. No.6574716   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4747

5-1-1992

The Independent Counsel Versus the Attorney

General in a Classified Information Procedures Act-

-Independent Counsel Statute Case

 

THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL VERSUS THE

ATTORNEY GENERAL IN A CLASSIFIED

INFORMATION PROCEDURES ACTINDEPENDENT COUNSEL STATUTE CASE -

RONALD K. NOBLE*

 

This article analyzes the tension that exists between two important federal statutes when they are triggered by sensitive and delicate prosecutions of high-ranking members of the Executive Branch

and other officials who, in the course of their legal defense, reveal

classified information

 

https://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/bclr/vol33/iss3/2/

rather long read

 

using search

declassify

1 hit

 

United States v. Fernandez, 887 F.2d 465, 470-71 (4th Cir. 1989); United States

v. North, 713 F. Supp. 1436, 1441-42 (D.D.C. 1989). The North and Fernandez courts concluded that the Attorney General can authorize disclosure by not filing a § 6(e) affidavit. The

Independent Counsel was deemed not to have the power to file a 6(e) affidavit. Because

the Attorney General was deemed to have exclusive power to file a § 6(e) affidavit, it is fair

to conclude that he alone has the power to authorize disclosure of classified information. Of

course, a decision by relevant entities to declassify information would make the Attorney

General's § 6(e) power moot