Newly unredacted Mueller report explains why Roger Stone and WikiLeaks were not charged with computer hacking conspiracy or campaign finance violations

Published November 3, 2020 1:06am ET



Previously redacted information from Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation report was made public on Monday, revealing why the special counsel’s team decided not to charge longtime Trump associate Roger Stone or WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange with crimes related to a computer hacking conspiracy or campaign finance violations.

The Justice Department released a new version of Mueller’s 448-page report one day before the Tuesday showdown between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden after Judge Reggie Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, an appointee of former President George W. Bush who has reviewed an unredacted version of Mueller’s report, issued a lengthy opinion in October ruling that most of the redactions were adequately justified but that some were not, including redactions on sections about the thought process behind the criminal charging decisions in connection to what Mueller’s team deemed was the Russian military intelligence hack of email systems belonging to former Secretary of State Hillary’s Clinton’s campaign, Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta, and the Democratic National Committee in 2016.

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