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More than 900 redactions in special counsel Robert Muellers 448-page report left unanswered major questions about President Trumps knowledge of Russian-led efforts to steal and disseminate Democratic documents in the 2016 presidential campaign.
They also indicate that federal investigators and prosecutors still have a way to go before closing the book on Russias efforts to help Trump defeat Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the last election.
While Mueller has completed his investigation, he has transferred two mystery cases to other divisions of the Department of Justice and referred 14 matters of evidence of potential criminal wrongdoing of which 12 have been kept secret to other law enforcement authorities.
But on the central focus of his investigation, Muellers probe did not conclude that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government.
Of the 953 redactions in Muellers report, 427 are instances where the Department of Justice censored the public release of sensitive information to avoid harm to ongoing matters, according to an analysis by Reuters.
The bulk of the redacted material was overseen by Attorney General William Barr, whom Democrats are going into overdrive to portray as a partisan figure bent on protecting the president.
Speaking to reporters before the reports release Thursday morning, Barr described the redactions as limited.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/439655-heavily-redacted-mueller-report-leaves-major-questions-unanswered
TwilightZone
(25,472 posts)Or what I expected.
It's certainly not the "half" I've seen claimed several times on DU today.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12024093
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)TwilightZone
(25,472 posts)From context, it appears that some of them are legit. That doesn't cover all of them, of course.