SURPRISE! JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REFUSES TO RELEASE MUELLER’S BUDGET REQUEST: Of course you’re not surprised. Judicial Watch submitted the Freedom of Information Act request for documents for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s budget. No can do, DOJ said, citing FOIA’s exemption five, the “deliberative process,” which is the transparency law’s all-purpose get-out-of-jail-free card for federal officials. Brendan Kirby of LifeZette has more.