Judge rips feds in Sherrod-Breitbart lawsuit

From Ann Althouse blog:

A federal judge delivered a severe tongue-lashing to a Justice Department lawyer Thursday, slamming the Obama Administration for its handling of demands for government records in the libel lawsuit fired Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod filed against conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart.

During a 40-minute hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon repeatedly ripped into the government and DOJ trial counsel David Glass for resisting requests from both sides in the case for government files and e-mails that might be of use in the litigation....

ADDED: Instapundit says:

I believe I said when this suit was filed that the discovery was likely to be interesting. If DOJ is stonewalling, it must be.

With Holder running the DOJ, I would not expect anything other than stonewalling.