The Justice Department is offering to let some congressional staffers view a less-redacted version of the Mueller report
The Justice Department also intends to continue shielding grand-jury information. Democrats have urged Barr to join them in seeking a court order to release that information.
It was not immediately clear whether those concessions allowing greater access to the less-redacted report were enough to convince House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to scrap the contempt vote, which was teed up after Barr signaled he would defy the panel’s subpoena for full, unredacted report and the underlying evidence. Nadler declined to comment.
Democrats have accused the Justice Department of stonewalling their document requests and blasted Barr for what they said was an effort to spin Mueller’s findings. But Judiciary Committee Republicans have defended Barr and argued that he made significant disclosures surrounding Mueller’s report that he was under no legal obligation to make. They include releasing a public version of the report, offering the less-redacted report to senior lawmakers and offering to testify to Congress on it.
The sources said two Justice Department officials attended the meeting, along with two Democratic Judiciary Committee staffers: Aaron Hiller and Norm Eisen. Three lawyers to the GOP side of the committee attended as well.
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