Justice Department expects to release Mueller report Thursday
Justice Department expects to release Mueller report Thursday
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department expects to make a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Trump-Russia investigation public Thursday morning, a interpreter aforementioned Monday.
The redacted report would be sent to Congress and besides made available to the public, Kerri Kupec aforementioned.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller officially complete his investigation late last month and submitted a nearly 400-page confidential report to attorney General William Barr. The attorney general then sent Congress a four-page letter that elaborate Mueller’s “principal conclusions.”
In his letter, Barr aforementioned the special counsel did not find a criminal conspiracy between Russia and Donald Trump’s associates during the campaign, but Mueller did not reach a conclusion on whether Trump barred justice. Instead, Mueller conferred evidence on some sides of the obstruction question. Barr aforementioned he did not believe the evidence was adequate to prove that Trump had barred justice.
Democrats have questioned how Barr could boil down Mueller’s full report so quickly and aver that it may have been written in a favorable way for the president.
Over the past several weeks, a small group of Justice Department officials has been scouring the document to redact grand jury information and inside information relating to unfinished investigations, among other materials.
