U.S. Attorney General to release redacted Mueller report to public by mid-April

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U.S. Attorney General to release redacted Mueller report to public by mid-April

By Sarah N. Lynch

 

FILE PHOTO - U.S. Attorney General William Barr leaves his house after Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia in the 2016 election in McClean, Virginia, U.S., March 25, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr plans to make public a redacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's nearly 400-page investigative report into Russian interference in the 2016 election by mid-April, "if not sooner," he said in a letter to lawmakers on Friday.

 

"Everyone will soon be able to read it on their own," Barr wrote in the letter to the top Democrats and Republicans on the Senate and House Judiciary committees.

 

He said he is willing to appear before both committees to testify about Mueller's report on May 1 and May 2.

Mueller completed his 22-month investigation into whether President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia on March 22.

 

On Sunday, Barr sent a four-page letter to Congress that outlined Mueller's main findings. Barr told lawmakers that Mueller's investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired with Russia in its election interference activities.

 

Mueller left unresolved the question of whether Trump obstructed justice during the investigation. Barr said that based on the evidence presented, he concluded it was not sufficient to charge the president with obstruction.

 

He said his letter on Sunday "was not, and did not purport to be an exhaustive recounting" of Mueller's investigation and said he believed the public should be allowed to read it and judge for themselves.

 

"I do not believe it would be in the public's interest for me to attempt to summarize the full report or release it in serial or piecemeal fashion," he wrote.

 

Lawmakers have since been clamouring for more details, with Democrats calling for a full release of the report and some lawmakers urging a deadline of April 2.

 

In a statement on Friday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said the April 2 deadline he imposed on the Justice Department "still stands" and he urged the release of a "full and complete" report without redactions.

 

The top Republican on the committee, Doug Collins, said on Twitter that Barr was "following his word" by pledging to release the report and chided Nadler for setting an arbitrary deadline.

 

Barr said in his letter on Friday that certain information must be redacted before the report is released, including secret grand jury information, intelligence sources and methods and information that by law cannot be public or might infringe on privacy.

 

Nadler rejected that notion, saying Barr must "work with us to request a court order to release any and all grand jury information to the House Judiciary Committee."

 

The federal rules of criminal procedure make it a crime for government officials to publicly divulge sensitive grand jury materials such as transcripts, unless a federal judge signs off first.

 

Barr said on Friday that although Trump also has the right to assert executive privilege on some materials in the report to keep them from being made public, Trump has said publicly he intends to defer to Barr.

 

Because of that, Barr added, there were no plans for the Justice Department to submit the report to the White House for a privilege review.

 

Jay Sekulow, a personal lawyer for Trump, deferred to the White House for comment. The White House declined to comment.

 

Speaking at a news conference on Friday afternoon in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said he "had a lot of confidence" in Barr.

 

At a rally on Thursday in Michigan, Trump had celebrated the end of the investigation and what he called "lies and smears and slander."

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-03-30

[pegman]

So does all the juicy stuff get hidden?

[Tug]

Good we should get the real story when Barr is under oath in the senate untle then we will have the redacted version 

[Puchaiyank]

Redacted?  That is like a Thai censored movie...no smoking, no drinking, no guns or knives, no sex...as real as it gets!    ????

[quandow]

[Chomper Higgot]

Barr has a problem.

 

As the names suggests, the Congressional Judiciary and the Congressional Oversight Committee has complete oversight of the DoJ and the AG and National Security.

 

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler has this to say about Barr’s offer of a redacted copy of the report:

 

“As I informed the Attorney General earlier this week, Congress requires the full and complete Mueller report, without redactions, as well as access to the underlying evidence, by April 2. That deadline still stands.”

 

He’s setting Barr up to be forced by subpoena to deliver the full, unredacted Mueller report to Congress.

 

Illiberals, get your denial glasses on, the truth will (despite Individual-1’s best efforts) out!

[wayned]

Barr quoted 74 words in his 4 page letter, I expect to see at least 86 words in the 300 page redacted report!.  He should redact in red then they could have a "red" report!

[impulse]

I'd like to remind everyone that, in spite of thousands of days and thousands of pages of investigations, there is no prosecutable evidence that Jimmy Hoffa was murdered.

 

[connda]

5 hours ago, pegman said:

So does all the juicy stuff get hidden?

The 'juicy stuff' gets redacted.

[spidermike007]

It certainly looks as if there is an awful lot of dirt to hide here. I do not buy for a nanosecond the excuse of having to protect many individuals. The ones being protected are all in the family.

[Kelsall]

4 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Barr has a problem.

 

As the names suggests, the Congressional Judiciary and the Congressional Oversight Committee has complete oversight of the DoJ and the AG and National Security.

 

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler has this to say about Barr’s offer of a redacted copy of the report:

 

“As I informed the Attorney General earlier this week, Congress requires the full and complete Mueller report, without redactions, as well as access to the underlying evidence, by April 2. That deadline still stands.”

 

He’s setting Barr up to be forced by subpoena to deliver the full, unredacted Mueller report to Congress.

 

Illiberals, get your denial glasses on, the truth will (despite Individual-1’s best efforts) out!

Be careful what you wish for. 

[roobaa01]

the report released will be the start for a new award winning tv show called the creepy dems with star hostess retarded aocortez, antisemite ilhan omar, fake latino beto o bourke, chief liar schiff, law clown nadler....

 

wbr

roobaa01

[IAMHERE]

I'd rather see an unredacted report on the JFK assassination than a full report sparked by a fake dossier created by a foreigner for Hillary for money.  Heck, a true report on 911 would be acceptable. Do democrats really believe Trump is a Russian agent? geez