JUST IN: AG Barr says he intends to release redacted Mueller report 'within a week.'
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr faced tough questions from a House panel Tuesday morning regarding special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, telling lawmakers he would release a redacted version of the original document"within a week.
He referred to a New York Times report from last week that said the special counsel's office had already created summary documents of the report that Serrano said"were ignored in your letter." He added that, per the reporting, some investigators on the team"felt that your summary understates the level of malfeasance by the President and several of his campaign and White House advisers.
Barr defended his handling of the document, listing several areas that he believes should be redacted, including grand jury information, information that the intelligence community believes would reveal sources and methods, information in the report that could interfere with ongoing prosecutions and information that “implicates the privacy or reputational interests of peripheral players where there’s a decision not to charge them.
Democrats have been demanding that Barr release the full Mueller report, which spans nearly 400 pages. Barr, who said in a previous letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., that he planned to release the report to Congress “in mid-April, if not sooner,” also said that there would be redactions.
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