saraacarter.com LIVE UPDATES:No Trump Russia Collusion. Special Counsel Says Russian GRU Gave Clinton Emails To WikiLeaks - Sara A. Carter
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10:18 a.m. EST: Attorney General William Barr said the full redacted report issued by Special Counsel Robert Mueller will be made available to the public after it is received by Congress. He noted that the report’s redactions were made by the intelligence community, Mueller’s team of prosecutors and those in the DOJ and that no-one outside of that community has viewed the fully redacted report. The redactions were made to protect sources and methods and ongoing litigation in the Southern District of New York, as well as Roger Stone’s case.
10:00 a.m. EST: After nearly two years of the investigations into alleged collusion between the Russian government and President Trump’s campaign special counsel prosecutors, many of whom were registered Democrats, found no evidence that either Trump or anyone associated with his campaign conspired with Russia. Robert Mueller’s team did, however, find evidence that the Hillary Clinton emails published by WikiLeaks in 2016 were delivered by Russian military spies to Julian Assange’s publication, according to Attorney General William Barr, who was flanked to his left by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
“The special counsel’s report states that it is ‘investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities,'” said Barr, as he read his notes from a podium. “Im sure Americans share my concern about the efforts of the Russian government’s to interfere in our election. As the special counsel report makes clear, the Russian government sought to interfere in our election process.”
Further, Barr noted in his 20 plus minute presser that WikiLeaks is not guilty of publishing the documents as there was no evidence that Assange’s team actively participated in the hack into the Democratic National Committee’s server or phishing schemes.
As for obstruction, Barr emphasized that there was no evidence that President Trump obstructed justice in the investigation and instead, did not use his executive privilege to interfere in any part of the investigation.
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