BREAKING: AG Barr's redacted version of the Mueller report is expected to be released to Congress and the public Thursday morning, US Justice Dept. says.
Andrew Harnik / AP fileGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Special counsel Robert Mueller's redacted report on the Russia investigation and President Donald Trump will be made public on Thursday morning, the Justice Department said Monday.
Washington has been waiting for the release of the report, which has put Attorney General William Barr at loggerheads with congressional Democrats who have demanded the entire, unredacted document since Mueller recently concludedSix House Democratic committee chairs sent a letter to Barr last month requesting that he submit the full report be delivered to Congress by April 2. Barr missed that deadline.
"hile this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him," the special counsel said in his report, according to Barr's letter. Barr said Mueller declined"to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment," leaving it up to the attorney general to choose whether to pursue obstruction charges against the president. Barr stated that he and deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein both concluded, without consulting Mueller, that based on the special counsel's findings Trump would not face an obstruction of justice charges for allegedly attempting to impede the investigation.
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