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Panel rules U.S. Justice Department under Barr improperly withheld memo in Russia probe

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The department had argued that the 2019 memo represented the private deliberations of its own lawyers before any decision had been formalized. A federal judge previously disagreed, ordering the Justice Department to provide it to a government transparency group that had sued for it. The department can appeal the ruling to the full court.

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