U.S. attorney general holds press conference ahead of release of redacted version of Mueller report

Source: Xinhua| 2019-04-18 23:24:50|Editor: Mu Xuequan
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WASHINGTON, April 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Attorney General William Barr said he will give Congress a redacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigative report on the Russia investigation at 11 a.m. (1500 GMT) on Thursday.

Barr told reporters at the Justice Department that the report will be released to the chairman and ranking members of the Senate and House judiciary committees.

The report will also be posted on the department's website for the public after it is delivered to Congress.

The release would come nearly a month after Mueller concluded his investigation into the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Barr said Thursday that, while the special counsel and his team "investigated a number of links or contacts between Trump campaign officials and individuals connected with the Russian government," they found no evidence of collusion.

The attorney general also said Mueller did not make a "traditional prosecutorial judgement" regarding allegations that President Donald Trump had obstructed justice.

Instead, the special recounted in his report 10 episodes involving the president and "discusses potential legal theories for connecting these actions to elements of an obstruction offense," according to Barr.

Barr added that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller in May 2017, disagreed with some of Mueller's "legal theories" about obstruction of justice and concluded that the special counsel did not have "sufficient" evidence to establish that Trump committed an obstruction of justice offense.

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