Democrats give DOJ one-week ultimatum to hand over Mueller's report and underlying documents
by Diana Stancy Correll
| March 25, 2019 07:46 PM
Democrats leading six House committees demanded the Justice Department release special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report to Congress by April 2, citing outstanding questions they claim were not answered in Attorney General Bill Barr’s summary of the Russia investigation provided to lawmakers Sunday.
“Your four-page summary of the Special Counsel’s review is not sufficient for Congress, as a coequal branch of government, to perform [its] critical work,†the lawmakers, including House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler of New York and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff of California, wrote in a letter to Barr. “The release of the full report and the underlying evidence and documents is urgently needed by our committees to perform their duties under the Constitution.â€
Barr’s summary came in the form of a four-page letter which stated the investigation “did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election."
Mueller did not determine whether Trump obstructed justice, which prompted Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to decide that the evidence “is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction-of-justice offense."
The lawmakers argued they “must be permitted to make an independent assessment of the evidence regarding obstruction of justice.â€
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