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Mueller report to be released by mid-April: Attorney General

Special Counsel Robert Muellers report into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is to be released by mid-April, Attorney General Bill Barr said on Friday.

Barr, in a letter to the chairmen of the House and Senate judiciary committees, said he was currently redacting sensitive material from the eagerly awaited report.

He said Mueller, a former FBI director, was assisting with the task.

“Our progress is such that I anticipate that we will be in a position to release the report by mid-April, if not sooner,” Barr said.

He said the report was nearly 400 pages long and “sets forth the Special Counsels findings, his analysis and the reasons for his conclusions.”

Barr, who released the “principal conclusions” of the report last week, has been under pressure from Democrats to release the full report.

“I share your desire to ensure that Congress and the public have the opportunity to read the Special Counsels report,” the attorney general told the Senate and House committee chairmen.

“Everyone will soon be able to read it on their own,” Barr said. “I do not believe it would be in the publics interest for me to attempt to summarize the full report or to release it in a serial or piecemeal fashion.”

Redactions underway

He said the redactions underway included material “the intelligence community identifies as potentially compromising sensitive sources and methods.”

Redactions also concern matters that the Special Counsel has referred to other Justice Department offices for investigation and information that would compromise the privacy of “peripheral third parties.”

Barr said the report would not be submitted to the White House for review and President Donald Trump had deferred to him to deal with any parts over which he could invoke executive privilege.

Barr, citing the “principal conclusions” of the report, said the Special Counsel did not find that the Trump prRead More – Source

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