Given the recent fury over William Barr's unwillingness to release an unredacted version of the Mueller report, it seemed interesting to look at a document from Watergate. The Watergate 'Road Map' was drawn up by Leon Jaworski and his staff as a way to outline the evidence against Richard Nixon for a grand jury in a way that was apolitical and simple to follow. The grand jury eventually sent the document to the House Judiciary Committee, but it was never revealed to the general public. The courts had refused to unseal the document for many years after it was submitted to the House Judiciary Committee. The general public and most members of the government only gained access to the Road Map in 2018, 44 years after it was put under seal.
A recent appeals court decision limited the ability to release grand jury information contained within the Mueller report to the general public, but not to Congress. The decision places a damper on the ability of public groups to sue for the release of grand jury information contained within the report. The question then is whether parts of the Mueller report will go the way of the Watergate Road Map?
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