Beyond posing questions about the relationship between Russia and President Donald Trump's campaign and whether they worked together to secure his victory, it also shined a light on how the US election system was vulnerable to manipulation from outside forces.
The bottom line: There's no question Russia interfered with the presidential election and that its attacks on the US "deserves the attention of every American," Mueller said Wednesday. Two days after receiving the report in late March, Barr sent a four-page summary to Congress with his conclusion the Trump campaign didn't conspire with Russia on the interference and that Trump didn't obstruct justice.
On April 18, the Justice Department livestreamed a press conference -- about an hour before the release of the redacted report -- in which Barr stated that no conspiracy was found between the Russians trying to undermine the election and any Americans, including members of the Trump campaign. But Barr's summary and press conference has set off its own controversy, with Democrats and other critics of saying Barr misrepresented the findings and left the public confused.
Mueller's investigation has led to indictments of six of Trump's advisers, along with 26 Russian nationals, including some on charges of hacking.
Indictments against 12 of the Russians were tied to malware that infected the servers of the Democratic National Committee during the election campaign.
The compromised servers enabled the theft of thousands of emails that were subsequently published by WikiLeaks. No new indictments were expected , according to CBS News. And long-running Justice Department policy means that it's unlikely a sitting president would be indicted. In fact, Mueller specifically cited the department's policy as the reason his office couldn't even consider charging Trump with a crime.
Said Mueller, "If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. In response, Trump criticized Mueller this week as a "never Trumper. In the past two months, lawmakers have weighed in , with Democrats saying Barr showed bias toward Trump and Republicans saying the public release of the redacted report was a positive thing.
Critics note details in the report paint Trump in a negative light. Although Mueller's investigation didn't establish conspiracy on the part of the president, it made no definitive determination on obstruction of justice. Barr's March 24 letter quotes the Mueller report as saying that "while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him" on the matter of obstruction.
Barr has opted not pursue an investigation into the questions surrounding obstruction. The law doesn't require the D OJ to release a report on a special counsel investigation. But the president indicated on March 20 he wanted the report released and said, " Let people see it.
At his April 18 press conference about the release of the Mueller report, Barr said there are "limited redactions" in the version of the report released to Congress and the public and that they are "clearly labeled. He also said that no redactions or recommendations for redactions were made by people outside the Justice Department and no redactions were made based on the president's executive privilege. Top Democrats in Congress have called for the release of the Mueller report in its entirety.
In a joint statement on March 24, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer said Barr isn't a neutral observer and that his letter "raises as many questions as it answers. On May 1, Barr appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to answer questions about the Mueller report, and he defended his March 24 summary and his overall assessment of the investigation. The day before the hearing, it was revealed that Mueller had written a letter to Barr saying, in part, that the attorney general's summary "did not fully capture the context, nature and substance of this Office's work and conclusions.
In the meantime, what Mueller found during his day investigation could lead to a widening of the partisan divide in the US, with Trump supporters likely to view the final results of the Mueller probe as exonerating the president, while his detractors see the report's contents and existing indictments as ample proof of wrongdoing.
You can access Mueller's report at the Department of Justice website. Since it's in PDF format, you can download the file to your device for offline viewing or transfer it to another device like a phone, tablet or e-reader. In addition to the president, other top Democratic and Republican lawmakers have said they want the full report released.
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