DOJ Hits Back At New York Times And Washington Post Stories On Mueller Report
11:59 AM 04/04/2019 | Politics
Saagar Enjeti | White House Correspondent
The Justice Department explained why it did not release summaries included in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report after reports surfaced that his investigators felt Attorney General Bill Barr mischaracterized their findings.
“Every page of the ‘confidential report’ provided to Attorney General Barr on March 22, 2019, was marked ‘May Contain Material Protected Under Fed. R. Crim. P. 6(e)’ — a law that protects confidential grand jury information — and therefore could not be publicly released,†Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said in a statement to The Daily Caller.
Kupec continued, “Given the extraordinary public interest in the matter, the attorney general decided to release the report’s bottom-line findings and his conclusions immediately — without attempting to summarize the report — with the understanding that the report itself would be released after the redaction process.†(RELATED: Justice Department Delivers Mueller Conclusions To Congress, Determines No Collusion)
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/04/doj-nyt-wapo-mueller/
