The Justice Department is defending Attorney General William Barr’s summary of special counsel Mueller’s confidential report after reports that Mueller’s investigators felt Barr did not properly convey how damaging their findings were for President Trump
A Justice Department spokeswoman said"every page" of Mueller's nearly 400-page report provided to Barr on March 22 was flagged as potentially containing material covered under a law that protects confidential grand jury information and"therefore could not be publicly released.
""Given the extraordinary public interest in the matter, the Attorney General decided to release the report's bottom-line findings and his conclusions immediately — without attempting to summarize the report — with the understanding that the report itself would be released after the redaction process," Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said in a statement.
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