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While the Department of Justice received the full results of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election promised by the office of the special counsel on Sunday, all that has been delivered to Congress and released to the public to date is a summary created by Attorney General William Barr.
Jeff Yang Barr, you'll recall, was appointed by President Donald Trump in no small part to take charge of the investigation. Recall, too, that in a memo last June to members of the Trump administration, Barr suggested a sitting president could not be criminally indicted and criticized Mueller's work as"overly broad.
Nadler: Conclusions raise more questions than they answer 03:03As a consequence, for us, the American public — we who most deserve to understand the peril to which our democracy might have been exposed — the Mueller investigation has been a chaotic Rorschach blot, interpreted from a spectrum of unrecognizably different perspectives and filtered through the worst and wildest partisan and conspiratorial lenses.
CNN reporter prediction: Look for pardons 01:03Though Mueller cleared Trump of the accusation that he engaged in collusion with Russia, the investigation has caused redolent bubbles of swamp gas to boil loose, pointing to distressing ties between Trump's closest intimates and deeply unsavory foreign actors. Given the array of individuals Mueller interviewed, it's likely that the report would provide illuminating details on those connections.
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