DOJ: Congressional Leaders Can View Less-Redacted Version Of Report Next Week

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 18: U.S. Attorney General William Barr speaks during a press conference on the release of the redacted version of the Mueller report at the Department of Justice April 18, 2019 in Washington, D... WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 18: U.S. Attorney General William Barr speaks during a press conference on the release of the redacted version of the Mueller report at the Department of Justice April 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. Members of Congress are expected to receive copies of the report later this morning with the report being released publicly soon after. Also pictured is Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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The Department of Justice will give congressional leaders the chance to view a less-redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report starting next week, according to a letter from Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd.

The letter was sent to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) on Thursday and said Attorney General William Barr would allow both the chairmen and ranking members of those committees, the “Gang of Eight” and a staffer for each lawmaker to read a different version of the report in a secure room at the Justice Department.

The reading of the less-redacted document will be available to the lawmakers from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. starting Monday until April 26. The same document will also be held in secure rooms for reading at the Capitol throughout the week of April 29.

The grand jury information will still be redacted.

Read the letter below:

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  1. This idiot Barr must think that if this little redaction here, little redaction there process goes on long enough people will lose interest. Oh, and they get to sit in a secure room to read it. What a nasty piece of work this guy is.

  2. The Department of Justice will give congressional leaders the chance to view a less-redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report,

    says Scooter Libby wannabe, William Barr.

  3. I’m certainly grateful that Dear Leader’s guardians (fka the DOJ) have deigned to allow the people’s representatives a ‘less’ edited version of the investigation’s report that we paid for. I feel blessed, indeed.

  4. Sooooo… They can only view it during banker’s hours, on a week when Congress is in recess and most people are out of town…

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