I am entirely annoyed by the lack of transparency and the double standards

... coming out in the report by delaying them as much as possible so that a narrative is already set.

I'm thinking liken the report to Nixon Tapes 2.0 or something and make the release of it a big deal so when the report is released people will be paying attention to it.

Still wont get Red Don impeached (we now elect kings) but will make it harder for him to be re-elected.

This shit has to stop

Starr operated under the 1978 Ethics in Government Act. He was actually required to produce a report for Congress... so of course, it was already written with that audience and public consumption in mind. There wasn't anything to edit. The two days had nothing to do with how long it took to fix the document for release.

The regulations that Mueller operates under were created by Janet Reno specifically in response to concerns with the old regulation. The current scheme contemplated only a confidential report to the AG and a summary from the AG to Congress outlining two specific topics.

The report on the longer investigation became public almost immediately. They could do it for this one too, and would if it really did exonerate Trump.

But it doesn't, and if we don't thump a drum about that the lazy media narrative will get stuck on "Trump was cleared".

The problem is that that's apples and oranges. It doesn't matter that it was a longer investigation because that report was delivered already ready to be released. It could have been released immediately because there was nothing classified (etc.) in it to begin with. (IIRC, there was a little GJ testimony, but that was actually the subject of the investigation)

Without knowing what Mueller included in the report, we don't have a clue how long it should take to prepare for release (even assuming good intentions on Barr's part... which I don't).

So we can't use the Starr report as a measuring stick for how long it should take... we just need to keep pressuring them to release it ASAP.

My opinion is that Congress should allow him to redact whatever he wants for now. There's no way that they could include Mueller's actually findings in that redaction. So if Barr's summary is wildly disconnected from reality... THEN we have new evidence of obstruction and "Barr Lied!!" becomes the new headline. Convincing a court to force a fuller release at that point would be easy.

We paid for it. It's about our country.

While Democrats believe in transparency, even to our own detriment. I have a feeling, they are going to do their upmost to hide the juicy bits in the report.