A redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has been provided to Congress and shared with the public.
The Mueller report appears to be most heavily redacted in its first section, which covers Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election and examines contacts between Russian representatives and the Trump campaign. The report concludes there was no criminal culpability by Trump aides.
Several pages in that first section are almost entirely blacked out. The report’s second section, examining possible obstruction by President Donald Trump, appears more lightly redacted.
The Justice Department’s careful excisions begin as early as the fourth page of the report.
Attorney General William Barr said at a news conference Thursday that redactions in the report correspond to four categories of information: “grand jury material, information that the [intelligence community] believes would disclose sources and methods, information that would impair the investigation and prosecution of other cases that are underway, and finally information that implicates the privacy and reputational interest of … third parties.”
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