While Robert Mueller found that the Trump campaign did not conspire with the Russian government, the special counsel didn’t resolve every mystery surrounding the Kremlin’s 2016 election interference scheme
Over 448 pages, special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report covered a huge amount of ground, from Trump campaign contacts with Russian operatives to President Donald Trump’s efforts to thwart Mueller’s probe.
that foreign intelligence and counterintelligence information was often transferred to FBI headquarters or field offices. Mueller also made 14 criminal referrals It seems clear that none of those subplots prompted Mueller’s team to consider bringing criminal charges. But while Mueller’s original mandate directed him to pursue both a counterintelligence investigation and a criminal probe, his report contains no classified information, leaving unknown to the public anything he might have discovered in that category.
One of the biggest subplots of the investigations into Russian election interference is the role the data mining firm Cambridge Analytica. But the controversial company didn’t appear once in the report, despite indications that Mueller had questioned and subpoenaed former employees.
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