It’s somewhere between 300 and 1000 pages.
That’s one of the few things we know about the Mueller report, cobbled together from a back-and-forth between Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and journalists yesterday, as well as a report on Thursday from the New York Times.
Nadler, who spoke with the country’s epistolary attorney general Bill Barr Wednesday about the report, declined to give an exact length, only revealing that it is “very substantial.”
That much isn’t so surprising. The report summarizes millions of documents and data gathered over the nearly two-year investigation that, according to Barr’s letter to Congress on Sunday, saw more than 500 people interviewed.
When asked if “very substantial” would be under 1,000 pages, Nadler replied, “I would think so.”
The New York Times then reported that the report is more than 300 pages.
The Times article suggests that the report’s extensive length “raises new questions” about Barr’s summary which, as of yet, remains the only insight into the Mueller report that’s publicly available.
Barr has indicated that he intends to redact grand jury information from the report, as well as information that is relevant to the ongoing investigations that Mueller farmed out to federal prosecutors around the country.
The report’s apparent length of 300-1000 pages would make Mueller’s dispatch fairly average in the annals of special counsel reportage. Ken Starr’s raunchy report totaled at 445 pages, while the Iran-Contra special prosecutor came out with a 572-page document.
The financial crisis inquiry produced a 663-page tome, and the 9/11 commission’s report took up 567 pages of print.
I hope six days of soft headlines was all worth it, Mr. Barr.
Comforting rhetoric aside, I’ll bet $25 that this admin will not release a meaningfully unredacted edition of this report while they still have power to prevent doing so. It’s just not going to happen though they’ll keep up the okey-doke as long as possible.
Remember the Whitewater special counsel’s report? That all started because the Clintons invested in a questionable real estate deal? That Kenneth Starr the Republican special counsel investigated and led to the sex scandal. That read like softcore porn fiction and was released it to the public upon publication?
Remember all that crap???
-and remember it was in bookstores for Christ’s sake in two days?
End the Barr cover up!!