JUST IN: AG Barr says he intends to release redacted Mueller report 'within a week.'
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr faced tough questions from a House panel Tuesday morning regarding special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, telling lawmakers he would release a redacted version of the original document"within a week.
He referred to a New York Times report from last week that said the special counsel's office had already created summary documents of the report that Serrano said"were ignored in your letter." He added that, per the reporting,that your summary understates the level of malfeasance by the President and several of his campaign and White House advisers."
Barr defended his handling of the document, listing several areas that he believes should be redacted, including grand jury information, information that the intelligence community believes would reveal sources and methods, information in the report that could interfere with ongoing prosecutions and information that “implicates the privacy or reputational interests of peripheral players where there’s a decision not to charge them.
Lowey expressed incredulity that Barr was able to fully digest the Mueller report and compile a summary of it in 48 hours.Barr responded that “the thinking of the special counsel was not a mystery to the people of the Department of Justice prior to his submission of the report. He had been interacting, he and his people were interacting with the deputy attorney general.”
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