Shorts: Four Principles for Reading the Mueller Report
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🗓️ 22 February 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
It’s looking more and more like Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation is finally reaching an end. The regulations under which he is operating require Mueller to write and submit a final, confidential report to the attorney general. Who, in turn, must then decide when and how much of the report to release to Congress and the public. No one outside of the Justice Department knows what will be in the report, which makes this the perfect to set ground rules regarding how people should engage this material, regardless of their political affiliations or view of the L’Affaire Russe scandal. Today, Susan Hennessey, Quinta Jurecic, Benjamin Wittes and I detailed what, we believe, those ground rules should be. In the latest edition of the Lawfare Podcast Shorts, you can listen to that article in-full, read by one of the authors, Susan Hennessey.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of the LawFair |
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm Susan Hennessy. |
| 1:16.0 | This is the LawFair podcast. |
| 1:18.6 | This afternoon I, along with my colleagues, Michaela Fogel, Quinta Gerrassik and Benjamin |
| 1:22.8 | Wittist published four principles for reading the Mueller report. |
| 1:27.8 | It seems to be real this time, if perhaps a bit late for the prediction by former presidential |
| 1:32.6 | lawyer Ty Cobb in the summer of 2017 that Robert Mueller's investigation would be over by |
| 1:37.8 | Thanksgiving of that year. |
| 1:40.0 | While Cobb was off by more than a year and a half, there are now clear signs that the |
| 1:43.6 | special counsel's office really is close to concluding its work. |
| 1:47.7 | Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has set a departure date of mid-March after a |
| 1:52.1 | report surface that he would leave the Justice Department only after Mueller finished |
| 1:56.2 | the probe. |
| 1:57.6 | As of February 20, CNN has reported that Attorney General Bill Barr may announce as early |
| 2:02.4 | as next week that Mueller has completed his investigation and that Barr plans to shortly |
| 2:06.8 | thereafter send a confidential summary of the report to Congress. |
| 2:11.4 | NBC's Pete Williams, likewise announced that a report from the special counsel's office |
| 2:15.7 | may head to the Justice Department as early as next week. |
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