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Redacción Deportes — US Attorney General William Barr will send to Congress by the middle of next month a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller ‘s report on alleged ties between the 2016 electoral campaign of President Donald Trump and Russia.
“Our progress is such that I anticipate we will be in a position to release the report by mid-April, if not sooner,†Barr said in a letter to the chairmen of the Senate and House judiciary committees, the Republican Lindsey Graham and Democrat Jerrold Nadler , respectively.
“Everyone will soon be able to read it on their own,†Barr said, and explained how the document will be redacted before its publication, and defended the brief summary he released last Sunday containing special counsel Mueller’s principal conclusions.
In that document, Barr said that Mueller’s investigations led to the conclusion that no one in Trump’s campaign nor the president himself conspired with Russian authorities during the 2016 presidential election in order to sabotage the candidacy of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
In his letter to Congress, Barr said that information will be redacted that could potentially compromise the sources and the methods of gathering information or that infringes unduly on the personal privacy and reputation of “peripheral third parties.â€
Despite such reservations, the letter says that in the coming weeks, lawmakers and the public will be able to study the full 400 pages of the Mueller probe.
Barr’s announcement came after members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, including some Republicans, requested the handing over of the complete report, which had greatly raised expectations in the US.
Democratic Congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer demanded the complete report and the underlying documents so the committees could continue working independently, including on any oversight or legislation needed to deal with such problems as the investigation might present.
Trump said it “wouldn’t bother me at all†if the report were made public that finds he committed no collusion with the Russians in the 2016 election, though he noted that the decision to do so was up to Barr.
Nonetheless, on the other charge of obstruction of justice, the special counsel’s report “does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.â€
Over the last two years, Trump has insisted that this investigation was a “witch hunt†by the Democratic opposition and has constantly denied that in the 2016 electoral campaign there was any conspiracy between his team and the Russian government.
