The DOJ Office of the Inspector General has also been investigating whether the FBI abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to spy on members of the Trump campaign. "More generally, I am reviewing the conduct of the investigation and trying to get my arms around all the aspects of the counter-intelligence investigation that was conducted during the summer of 2016," Barr told ranking Republican Rep. Republicans, concerned about the fairness of the special counsel investigation into President Trump and his allies, asked if the Justice Department will look into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.īarr confirmed. He further stated that his March 24 assertion that the Mueller investigation "does not exonerate" President Trump was language taken directly from the special counsel's report and was among Mueller's "bottom line conclusions." Mueller's investigation left open questions of whether Trump took actions to obstruct justice.īarr assured members of Congress that the actions related to possible obstruction of justice "will be identifiable" and included in the redacted Mueller report. However, the attorney general stopped short of clearing the president.
President Donald Trump and his supporters claimed the report "totally vindicated" the administration.
Mueller's team did not play a role in drafting or reviewing the four-page document, Barr told lawmakers Tuesday. The attorney general stated the special counsel "did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. On March 24, Barr released a four-page report on the conclusions of Mueller's investigation. "All we have is your four-page summary which seems to cherrypick from the report to draw the most favorable conclusion possible for the president," she said.
FOUR CATEGORIES OF REDACTED INFORMATION IN MUELLER REPORT FULL
Lawmakers have threatened to subpoena the redacted information and bring the matter to federal court if they are unable to see the full report.Īppropriations Chairwoman Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., demanded "transparency" and the immediate release of the report. In a letter to Congress, Barr said he intended to redact four categories of information from the Mueller report: grand jury information, information the intelligence community believes would reveal sources and methods, information that would interfere with ongoing investigations and information that could damage the privacy or reputations of peripheral players. He said he will testify before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees after the report is released. Barr pledged to work with the relevant Democratic committee chairmen on the issues of classified material in the report and make as much of it available to the public and Congress as possible.
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