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Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is to be released by mid-April, Attorney General William Barr said Friday.
Barr, in a letter to the chairmen of the House and Senate judiciary committees, said he was currently redacting sensitive material from the eagerly awaited report.

He said Mueller, a former FBI director, was assisting with the task.
“Our progress is such that I anticipate that we will be in a position to release the report by mid-April, if not sooner,” Barr said.
Mueller report is more than 300 pages, fuelling demand for full release
He said the report was nearly 400 pages long and “sets forth the Special Counsel’s findings, his analysis and the reasons for his conclusions”.
Barr, who released the “principal conclusions” of the report last week, has been under pressure from Democrats to release the full report.

“I share your desire to ensure that Congress and the public have the opportunity to read the Special Counsel’s report,” the attorney general told the Senate and House committee chairmen.
“Everyone will soon be able to read it on their own,” Barr said. “I do not believe it would be in the public’s interest for me to attempt to summarize the full report or to release it in a serial or piecemeal fashion.”
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He said the redactions underway included material “the intelligence community identifies as potentially compromising sensitive sources and methods.”
Redactions also concern matters that the special counsel has referred to other Justice Department offices for investigation and information that would compromise the privacy of “peripheral third parties”.
Barr said that the report would not be submitted to the White House for review and that President Donald Trump had deferred to him to deal with any parts over which he could invoke executive privilege.




Barr, citing the “principal conclusions” of the report, said the special counsel did not find that the Trump presidential campaign conspired with the Russian government to win the election.
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Mueller also left the decision on whether Trump obstructed justice up to the attorney general, who determined that he had not “committed an obstruction-of-justice offence”.
Regarding obstruction, Mueller states that “while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”
In his letter, Barr said he would be prepared to testify before the Senate and House judiciary committees on May 1 and May 2 respectively.


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Special counsel Robert Mueller walks past the White House on Sunday after attending St John's Episcopal Church for morning services. Photo: AP

FILE - In this March 22, 2019, file photo, Attorney General William Barr leaves his home in McLean, Va. Barr told Congress on March 29, to expect version of special counsel's Russia report by mid-April. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The letter that Attorney General William Barr sent to Congress on Friday, March 29, 2019, is photographed in Washington. Barr told Congress to expect a version of special counsel's Russia report by mid-April. (AP Photo/Wayne Partlow)

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FILE PHOTO: U.S. Attorney General William Barr's signature is seen at the end of his four-page letter to U.S. congressional leaders on the conclusions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election after the letter was released by the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, U.S. March 24, 2019. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo

Representative Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, speaks during a hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, March 28, 2019. House Democrats are continuing to examine evidence of Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election and probe any contact Donald Trump or his advisers might have had with the country's officials, even after Special Counsel Robert Mueller submitted his final report on the topic to the Department of Justice. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Attorney General William Barr leaves his house after Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia in the 2016 election in McClean, Virginia, U.S., March 25, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo

In this March 24, 2019, photo, Special counsel Robert Mueller departs St. John's Episcopal Church, across from the White House in Washington. Democrats say they want “all of the underlying evidence” in Mueller’s investigation. But what is all of that evidence? (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Special counsel Robert Mueller arrives at his office in Washington on Wednesday. Photo: Bloomberg

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The letter from Attorney General William Barr to Congress on the conclusions reached by special counsel Robert Mueller in the Russia probe photographed on Sunday, March 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 24: Special Counsel Robert Mueller walks after attending church on March 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. Special counsel Robert Mueller has delivered his report on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election to Attorney General William Barr. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

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Robert Mueller is helping redact sensitive material from his almost 400-page report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, says William Barr
The report will not be submitted to the White House before it is released, he says


Robert Mueller is helping redact sensitive material from his almost-400-page report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, says William Barr. The report will not be submitted to the White House before it is released, he says.


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