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If I understand the reporting, Barr’s excuse for not releasing the Mueller team’s own summaries—written expressly for public release—is that these somehow remained so riddled with classified or grand jury information that this was impossible. That is not credible.
If Barr’s view of what must be withheld is so broad that it covers even Mueller’s summaries written deliberately for public release, then it is impossible to see how we can expect meaningful disclosure of the full report.
It also makes the need for review & redaction, which I’d accepted as legitimate in theory, sound like a stall tactic. How long would it have taken to review the summaries? If we still can’t see those, why should we think we ever get to see anything substantial?
