Two types of nocturnal creatures hate and fear the light.
Bugs and Team Coup.
The DOJ and FBI have tried to classify and hide everything about Spygate. Especially if it reflects badly on them. And while Mueller's people leak constantly to the media. They do it on their own terms and resist transparency.
Special counsel Robert Mueller is fighting a drive by media organizations to unseal secret court filings relating to searches and surveillance efforts undertaken as part of the investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election...
Last month, five news organizations — POLITICO, The Associated Press, The New York Times, CNN and The Washington Post — asked Jackson to unseal an unknown number of warrants and similar orders obtained during the course of the investigation.
Now this is a case of trying to kill the golden goose. But greed is in the nature of the media. If the stuff Mueller gave them has been so profitable, think about how much they could cash in from more of the good stuff.
But why is Mueller fighting it?
The news outlets suggested that deletion of some details could accommodate any concerns about particularly sensitive aspects of the filings, but Mueller’s team said Wednesday that such an alternative would not prevent damage to the ongoing investigation. Indeed, the prosecutors said that revealing even bare-bones information about when warrants were issued could inflict grave damage on the inquiry.
As we've seen with the FBI redactions, anything and everything must be classified.
“The dates and volume of warrants also reveal the evolution and direction of investigative interests,” Mueller attorneys Michael Dreeben, Andrew Weissmann and Adam Jed wrote. “Making this information public while an investigation is ongoing could pose a clear and ominous threat to the investigation’s integrity.”
It seems like maintaining a classified investigation of the political opposition is the clear and ominous threat.
So we've got an investigation whose direction is too secret to be made public. That sounds more like an intelligence operation against an adversary than an investigation. And that's how Mueller operates.
Open societies don't have secret investigations. Lefty dictatorships do.
Mueller's secret investigation reminds me of Kafka's The Trial. Perhaps one day we'll be told what the charges against us are.