Democrats are attacking the attorney general over what they say is ‘unacceptable handling’ of Mueller’s findings.
Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that he intends to release a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report “within a week” and that he intends to explain his rationale behind every piece of the report he blocks from public view.
Barr told lawmakers during an appearance on Capitol Hill that he is working with Mueller to identify sensitive information that should be redacted — including grand jury evidence, classified material and information relevant to ongoing investigations — before he submits the report. He said the process was “going along very well.”
“I do think it’s important that the public have an opportunity to learn the results of the special counsel’s work,” Barr said, noting that the special counsel regulations, as written, do not require him to make the report public.
The attorney general said he gave Mueller and his prosecutors an opportunity to review his four-page summary of the report before it was released to the public last month. Barr said Mueller declined. He also said he doesn’t believe Mueller was involved in crafting a second letter to Congress that Barr sent last week, in which the attorney general outlined the types of redactions he believes are necessary.
Barr’s appearance, ostensibly to advocate for the Justice Department’s budget, featured a raft of questions about his handling of Mueller’s report, which Democrats have panned as an effort to protect Trump from damaging information contained in it. Barr wrote in his summary that Mueller “did not establish” that the Trump campaign conspired with Russians to influence the 2016 election.
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Barr's appearance, meant to advocate for the Justice Department's budget, is already slated to feature a slew of questions about his handling of Mueller's report https://t.co/4taiXRHvzV
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This is baloney. By the time , Barr redacts the report, it will be useless.
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