US Attorney General William Barr said that a report on the Trump-Russia saga will be released within a week.
of releasing a version by mid-April still stood. The report, which is nearly 400 pages long, is being scoured now to remove grand jury information and details that relate to pending investigations.
Nita Lowey, the Democratic chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, said she was taken aback that Barr had reduced Mueller’s report to a four-page letter in just two days. Explaining the rapid turnaround for his letter, Barr said, “The thinking of the special counsel was not a mystery to the Department of Justice prior to the submission of the report.”
The new attorney general’s budget testimony — traditionally a dry affair, and often addressing the parochial concerns of politicians — came as Democrats were enraged that he was redacting material from the report and frustrated that his summary framed a narrative about Trump before they were able to see the full version.
The chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee, Democrat Jose Serrano, told Barr there were “serious concerns about the process by which you formulated your letter; and uncertainty about when we can expect to see the full report”. “The attorney general just stonewalled us. He shared with us what he wanted to share with us and what he didn’t want to share with us, he withheld,” Lowey told reporters.
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