William Barr’s testimony to Congress about the Justice Department’s budget will likely be overshadowed by questions about his plans to release the Mueller report
Attorney General William Barr’s first public confrontation with Congress over the special counsel’s still-secret report could come Tuesday, when his testimony about the Justice Department’s budget will likely be overshadowed by questions about his plans to release the roughly 400-page document.
Mr. Barr has said he would make the document, with redactions, public by mid-April, but Democrats have called that insufficient. They want to see the complete conclusions of Robert Mueller’s 22-month investigation, and have threatened...
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