Select members of Congress will get to view a version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report with fewer redactions as early as next week.
In a Thursday letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd said that leaders in their committees and lawmakers in the “Gang of Eight” would have the chance to view the document in a secure reading room located at the Justice Department.
The Justice Department reading room will be open for those lawmakers from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. next week. Boyd said that the Justice Department would give the group the chance to view the document in secure spaces on Capitol Hill the following week.
The report will have all redactions related to ongoing investigations, sensitive national security information, and details on “peripheral third parties” removed, although the document will still contain grand jury redactions, which are subject to federal secrecy laws.
“Given the sensitive nature of the information, the additional information will be made available through in camera review contingent on an agreement by all individuals reviewing the less-redacted version of the Report that the material provided only to the above-identified members and staff will remain confidential,” Boyd said in the letter.
Boyd went on to say that the information redacted in the public version of the report is sensitive and confidential and “should not be shared in any form” without approval from the Justice Department.
After Barr’s 9:30 a.m. press conference, Mueller’s report was released at 11 a.m. The document showed that his investigation found that Trump did not conspire with Russia during the 2016 presidential election but made no determination on whether the president obstructed justice. Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein cleared Trump of those claims in a four-page summary to Congress last month.
