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Five things to watch for in restricted Mueller report | TheHill

posted onApril 14, 2019
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Article snippet: Attorney General MORE’s report sometime next week, leaving Washington on edge with questions about its contents. Barr already laid out what he described as Mueller’s bottom-line conclusions in a four-page letter, saying the special counsel did not find evidence to establish that members of the Trump campaign coordinated or conspired with the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 election. Barr also said Mueller did not come to a conclusion on whether the president obstructed justice. However, the attorney general reviewed the evidence and found it insufficient to accuse Trump of obstruction. Those details are all that Congress and the public have received from the Justice Department about Mueller’s 22-month probe since it ended three weeks ago, and they have dramatically increased the appetite for a glimpse at the special counsel’s closing documentation. Here are five things to watch for once Barr provides more of the report to Congress. How much of it is redacted? It remains unclear how much of Mueller’s nearly 400-page report the public will actually see. Barr has said he intends to restrict details that fall into four categories: grand jury material that is subject to federal secrecy rules, information that could reveal intelligence sources and methods, details that could compromise ongoing investigations spun off from Mueller’s probe, and information that could impact the privacy of “peripheral” third parties. The result could be a heavily redacted docu... Link to the full article to read more

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