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Negative.With that said, this breaking the law line is BS.
1. Grand Jury Information can NOT be legally released.
2. Comey's own team helped / participated in the redaction of the report.
-- If you are going to accuse Barr of engaging in a cover-up by redacting information then you are simultaneously accusing Mueller's own team of engaging in that same cover-up.
3. READ THE LAW. Congress wrote it. If they wanted to they could have already changed the law, making it legal for the US AG to release the entire report. Instead, they have neither made any attempt to read the less redacted version nor made any effort to change their law to allow it to be released.
It's all political theater.
Appeals court affirms judges can release secret grand jury records
By JOSH GERSTEIN
02/11/2019 06:49 PM EST
An Atlanta-based federal appeals court, acting in the case of a 75-year-old Georgia lynching, has reaffirmed the rights of federal judges to release grand jury records that are typically kept secret.
The decision Monday from a split 11th Circuit panel came in one of a pair of cases that legal experts are closely watching for a potential impact on the Justice Department’s latitude to make public the results of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
An 11th Circuit ruling is unlikely to serve as a binding precedent for any aspect of Mueller’s D.C.-based inquiry, but backers of the investigation have been eager for courts to signal that grand jury materials can be released in extraordinary cases and that the list of explicit exceptions in federal court rules is not all-inclusive.