The Justice Department is anticipating a Thursday morning release of the public version of the report submitted by special counsel Robert Mueller.
DOJ spokesperson Kerri Kupec confirmed to TPM the timeline of the expected release of the report. It will be made available to the public and Congress at the same time.
The report Mueller submitted was some 400 pages long, not including underlying documents. Attorney General Bill Barr is already under scrutiny for his stated plans to withhold certain materials in the report itself from Congress and the public, including grand jury materials, classified information revealing sources and methods, and information about “peripheral” third part individuals that could damage their reputations.
House Democrats have already made formal requests to see the entirety of the report, and have floated taking the Justice Department to court over full disclosure of its contents and the underlying evidence.
What do you want to bet it will be delayed til Friday?
Told all y’all this was coming out. No need to despair. Just get your reading glasses on, get the mood lighting, coffee, tea, wine or drink of choice, and pore through the thing. Let’s crowd source this and find out all the stuff the Barr left out, and hyper-analyze all the stuff that he left in. Don’t listen to media spin. We should be the news generators. Make your observations, put it online, make it go viral. Force the media to cover the real story in this release.
Thursday before Easter weekend…Better then Friday newsdrop
The media need to get this one right. DO NOT claim the report issued is the Mueller report. It isn’t. It’s the Barr/Trump report. Until the real and unredacted Mueller report comes out, no summary of redacted version should be treated as at all legitimate.
GET THIS RIGHT. Stop helping Trump spread false information.