Mueller Report To Be Released Within A Week, Attorney General William Barr Tells Congress

Atty. Gen. William Barr told Congress on Tuesday that he plans to release special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s highly anticipated report on Russian interference in the presidential election in the next week.

Justice Department lawyers and officials in Mueller’s office are working to redact sensitive information in the lengthy document, a process that is going smoothly, Barr testified before the House Appropriations Committee.

“The process is going along very well,” Barr said, “and my original timetable of being able to release this by mid-April stands. And so I think that from my standpoint, within a week I will be in a position to release the report to the public.”

Barr also disclosed that Mueller declined an offer by Justice Department officials to review the attorney general’s four-page letter he sent to Congress on March 24 that summarized the special counsel’s main findings.

Barr’s four-page letter highlighted Mueller’s major findings that the special counsel’s investigation did not establish a criminal conspiracy between President Trump’s campaign and the Russian government.

Mueller did not reach a conclusion on whether Trump had obstructed justice by trying to interfere with the probe, but Barr wrote in his letter that the president had not committed a crime. The House Judiciary Committee voted last week to authorize a subpoena to obtain the full report.