https://news.vice.com/en_us/article...-some-of-his-key-findings-out-of-trumps-grasp MUELLER JUST PULLED SOME OF HIS KEY FINDINGS OUT OF TRUMP’S GRASP But by dealing most of his cards face down, Mueller achieved something big: He blocked President Trump and his next attorney general from permanently burying whatever’s concealed within those documents, legal experts told VICE News. Put simply: Mueller just dispersed some of the findings of his investigation to a couple federal judges, who now have the power to safeguard, and later reveal, the key parts of the special counsel’s work directly to the public, former prosecutors said. “He’s putting the product of his investigation into safe hands,” said Rebecca Roiphe, a former prosecutor and expert on legal ethics at New York Law School. “All that redacted material is now with a judge. Once it’s with a judge, other officials within the Department of Justice lose the power to destroy it.” These legal Easter eggs may eventually serve as a backup plan for publicizing the investigation’s findings if the Trump administration tries to stifle Mueller’s final report, experts said — a power Trump’s attorney general may indeed try to exercise. Judges, who get to read the covered up parts, typically keep such portions sealed until one of the parties involved asks for them to be opened to the public. But the judges involved don’t have to wait for Mueller’s say-so. A request to unseal the documents could even come from any third party that intervenes in the case — including a media outfit, legal experts said. The many redacted paragraphs in Mueller’s latest filings are like buried time bombs waiting to go off in a similar fashion, under the right circumstances, legal experts said. “Mueller’s team now has a failsafe. If the judge ever decides there’s a legitimate reason to release this information to another prosecutor’s office, or to the public, the judge can order that,” said Ilene Jaroslaw, a former prosecutor and now partner at Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney. “Nothing the executive branch can do now can take it away.” Mueller has already made it much harder for Trump to stunt the Russia investigation, by spinning off lines of inquiry to other offices. In handing off cases to investigators in New York, Washington, and at the National Security Division of the Department of Justice, Mueller ensured that his operation will live on even if he’s fired, legal experts said. Democrats would likely win that battle for the report, said William Treanor, who served as the associate counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel during the Iran-Contra investigation in the 1980s. “Case law suggests the court would probably enforce a subpoena” for the Mueller report, Treanor said. your move Donny