Mueller Report Will Be Released Within Weeks

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Mueller Report Will Be Released Within Weeks

March 26, 2019 at 5:25 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 30 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/03/26/mueller-report-will-be-released-within-weeks/

"SNIP....

A Justice Department official told the Wall Street Journal that it “will take weeks, not months,” to review special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his Russia investigation and “produce a version for release to Congress and the public.”

....SNIP"

[Hugin]

1. I thought he summarized it in less than a day.

What's the hold up?

[Chin music]

6. The hold-up is the time they use to paint whatever THEY want it to say, and reduce

expectations. The old 'something will happen in a few weeks." gambit has been a real winner, for those to begin the process of indefinite delay.

[Qutzupalotl]

8. Redacting grand jury material

and protecting sources and methods.

[Hugin]

12. I don't buy it.

I think it's a stall to wait out the news cycle.

[Qutzupalotl]

14. Nevertheless, grand jury material cannot be released.

And ongoing cases cannot be jeopardized.

[rockfordfile]

19. The Republican report "Mueller Report" Have ongoing cases but trump is seeing that info

Corruption

[Qutzupalotl]

21. That report was withdrawn.

Trump will not get an advance copy of the Mueller report:
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/mueller-report-william-barr-letter-release-trump-russia-live-updates-2019-03-26/

[rgbecker]

29. What, exactly, is "Grand jury material"?

Could you give an example....names of Jurists? Dates when they met? How they voted?

I don't get it.

[Qutzupalotl]

32. The evidence they saw.

The only thing a grand jury can issue is indictments. Everything else is secret.

[FBaggins]

33. Not quite

It's essentially things that were created as part of the GJ process (witness testimony, deliberations, etc.) - Things that the prosecutor could otherwise release (e.g., that were produced in the investigation) don't become secret just because they were shown to the grand jury.

[COLGATE4]

34. Lawrence had the former Chief Counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee

on who explained that a Court can easily be petitioned to release the pertinent Grand Jury testimony. According to him it's no big deal and can be done quite readily.

[FBaggins]

36. I didn't see that, but I saw him interview one of the Watergate prosecutors

She oversold the possibility. It isn't impossible, but it's certainly not "no big deal and can be done quite readily"

The Watergate prosecutor (Wine-Banks) likely remembers that they won a district court ruling on the subject against Nixon, but that never went higher up the food chain.

There's actually a circuit split on the issue (implying that it would go all the way to SCOTUS). The 11th circuit just ruled favorably on the issue last month, but their ruling was based on the long period of time between the jury proceedings and the request for release. The 8th circuit ruled the other way about a decade ago (ironically in a case dealing with the Starr report). There was an indication from the Supreme Court in '96 going in the other direction (against release), but it was dicta.

The long and short of it is that it wouldn't be at all "no big deal". There's a question re: whether Congress can go to court at this point because the current regulations don't give them a right to the report in the first place (just Barr's letter). So they wait for whatever Mueller/Barr produce and then challenge it. It appears likely that it would go all the way to SCOTUS before we could win - which would mean months, not weeks.

Frankly, I don't think we need it at this point. My first priority would be to determine "Does Barr's summary actually reflect Mueller's determinations?" That can't be hidden by redaction. I want that question answered as quickly as possible. We can start the longer process at that point if needed.

[Hugin]

30. Since when have the Trumplodytes given a whit about such things?

The more birds they can kill with this so-called report, the happier they are.

[KPN]

28. Sounds like stuff just about anyone here could find and redact

in pretty short order, not frigging weeks. This is a giant stall to let their messaging take deep root.

[spanone]

2. which tells us that bob barr cherry picked and had zero time to read it

and made his 'no obstruction' call on minimal information...the fix was in with barr

[manor321]

3. It needs to be released now.

[PeeJ52]

4. How long before Congress gets one that is readable?

Remember that one Rachel showed us with the 8 pages of redactions?

[Flaleftist]

5. "produce a version"

🤔

[Hugin]

7. It takes time to chop it up and paste the words in the order you want...

Like an old timey ransom note.

These guys are walking cliches.

[Chin music]

10. I saw that too.

Let's cut to the chase and go with the truth. barrs making some big money, and important friends for all those new grandkid attorneys. Clap-clap..."Jobs all around"

[.99center]

35. He's going to write a summary of the Mueller report, and send that instead.

Link to tweet

[RKP5637]

9. As they are busily rewriting it. n/t

[keithbvadu2]

11. and "produce a version for release to Congress and the public."

and “produce a version for release to Congress and the public.”

It has to be 'corrected'.

[RKP5637]

15. The country is trying to be run like a damn dictatorship. n/t

[itsrobert]

13. Mueller's executive summary should be released ASAP.

No reason not to since the report vindicates Trump.

[RKP5637]

16. There is so much damn BS going on...

[Bleacher Creature]

17. Note the "produce a version for release" qualifier.

My guess is that it will be heavily redacted.

[lame54]

18. A truckload of black magic markers just pulled up to the Whitehouse

[Baclava]

20. DOJ: "Weeks not months" to release Mueller report

So u got time, about 1 month 29 days to get ready for its heavily redacted release

[Takket]

22. "weeks, not months"

good phrasing there. the report should be released NOW, but the way they phrased it they make it SOUND like they are "hurrying along". Anything compromising is being edited out and the final report will basically just be the Barr letter with a few more words.

by the time a few weeks go by of rethugs attacking defenseless dems on EVERY front, I wonder if the public will even care by the time it is "released".

[bluestarone]

23. We will hand this copy to Mueller to refill in the blanks

Then file charges of OBSTRUCTION against BARR!!

[mr_lebowski]

24. To my mind, not much friggin' chance the Report is released ...

I'm about 95% sure Trump is going to demand a new Special Counsel (Starr, anyone?) to investigate Comey/McCabe/Strzok/Page/Fusion/Steel/McCain and every Democrat and Dem-Appointed Judge who approved surveillance ... he can possibly justify.

AND he'll say 'until we find out whether this report was fruit of a poisoned tree, and illegal in the first place, nobody may see it outside (who I want)'.

Now, he may lose in court, but he might not. Depends on the Judge most likely.

He'll angle to make us Dems complain until Oct 2020, then finally release a highly-redacted version that makes us look dumb for having tried to pin this on him for his entire first term.

And his OSC will come out with a report saying Obama & the Nasty Dems colluded with one another take down Trump by starting an illegal investigation against him.

[Aussie105]

25. Redacting

a few lines concerning national security and currently happening court cases is just a matter of editing.

Takes no time at all.

[JI7]

26. it will be like the taxes

[madamesilverspurs]

27. Here's hoping Mueller's original will be preserved.

We'd be foolish to believe that nothing would be lost "in translation".

.

[kacekwl]

31. Why doesn't Congress get the same report Barr got ?

Don't they have security clearance ?

[Meowmee]

37. That is my question

And there is no way it should take weeks much less months to take out any classified info.

[FBaggins]

39. Actually, no. Congress doesn't get security clearances

They are privy to much that would otherwise be classified just on the basis of their election to the seat. Security classification is inherently an executive branch thing. Of course they need some information to do their job and the executive branch normally shares the information under ongoing agreements between the two branches.

As for your first question. The straightforward answer is that the governing regulations don't require it. They require a confidential report to the AG alone and require the AG to make a report to Congress on decisions whether or not to prosecute and whether or not the AG overruled the SC on any decisions.

Of course, Congress has the power to perform their own investigation, so it makes sense that the DOJ should turn over relevant evidence to them. Plus there's the public pressure.

[TexasBlueDog]

38. Here's what you're going to see...

A report with all personal information redacted. Information about individuals who were not charged may not be released. The thinking behind that is to keep people who are innocent under the law from having personal information harmfully disseminated.

The very things we must see will be blocked. We have to act on this now (congress? lawsuits?) or just be shocked and surprised when a mostly blacked out report is issued.