Democrats set to move quickly to get full Robert Mueller report
Party mulls subpoenas as attorney general's version, due for release on Wednesday, is expected to be heavily redacted
Washington — Congressional Democrats could move forward quickly — as early as Monday — with subpoenas to obtain special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report on Russian interference in the US 2016 election, after attorney general William Barr releases a version on Thursday that may have significant portions blacked out. A day before the planned release of a redacted version of the report, President Donald Trump went to Twitter to renew his attacks on the special counsel’s investigation and the FBI. When the report is released, close attention will be given not only to potential new details on the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia and the question of whether the Republican president acted to impede the inquiry, but also on how much Barr elects to withhold. The Democratic-led House of Representatives judiciary committee voted on April 3 to authorise its chair, Jerrold Nadler, to issue subpoenas to the justice department to obtain Mueller’s unredacted report and all underlying evide...
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