Congressional Democrats issue attorney general an April 2 deadline to provide Mueller's full report on Trump campaign and Russia
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Barr continued to scrub grand jury material from Mueller’s report so it might one day be turned over to lawmakers eager to read the special counsel’s findings. A person familiar with the matter said there were no current plans to turn over the document to the White House, which still had not seen it Monday. The person, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal White House and Justice Department matters.
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham , who spoke to Barr on Monday, said the attorney general told him he would be “glad” to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss the special counsel’s findings, but not before he could determine what should be redacted from the report. Graham, who chairs the committee, said he urged Barr to release as much of the report he can “sooner rather than later.”
The attorney general, though, went further, writing that he and Rosenstein “concluded that the evidence developed during the special counsel’s investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction of justice offense.” Rep. David N. Cicilline said Monday that he thought it was “completely inappropriate” for Barr to have concluded Trump did not obstruct justice, and that the attorney general was trying to “shape the narrative” unfairly.
Barr wrote that Mueller “ultimately determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment” on the question of obstruction, and that his report “identifies no actions that, in our judgment, constitute obstructive conduct, had a nexus to a pending or contemplated proceeding, and were done with corrupt intent, each of which, under the Department’s principles of federal prosecution guiding charging decisions, would need to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to establish an obstruction of...
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