“We need to make sure that we protect the innocent here.”“The Mueller report... we can just burn it up. It is a partisan document,” Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, told Fox News. Ken Starr, the independent counsel who dogged President Bill Clinton, wrote a piece in The Atlantic calling on Mueller to remain quiet and not produce a public report. Barr has told Congress that concerns over President Donald Trump’s right to privacy could limit what the Justice Department discloses about the Mueller investigation. If the Mueller report indicates that Trump would have been indicted but for being the president, legal experts say the department couldn’t justify holding that information back.

Source: Huffington Post March 24, 2019 18:41 UTC