William Barr to release (some of) Robert Mueller’s report ‘within a week’
The US attorney-general and Trump appointee will use his own discretion to decide what becomes public, and the Democrats aren't happy
Washington — US attorney-general William Barr has said he’ll release special counsel Robert Mueller’s report “within a week” and will offer some explanations for material that he’ll be withholding. “I am relying on my own discretion to make as much of it public as I can,” Barr told a house appropriations panel on Tuesday. He said passages blacked out in the report will be colour-coded to indicate reasons for redactions, such as references to grand jury testimony or damage to a person “peripheral” to the investigation. However, Democrats, who control the panel, questioned Barr’s actions so far in releasing summaries of Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, any involvement by those around US President Donald Trump, and whether the president sought to obstruct the probe. “All we have is your four-page summary letter, which seems to cherry-pick from the report to draw the most favorable conclusion possible for the president,” representative Nita Low...
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