{"id":403478,"date":"2019-04-21T14:15:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T13:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-congress-can-follow-up-on-the-incomplete-and-redacted-mueller-report\/"},"modified":"2019-04-21T14:15:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T13:15:51","slug":"how-congress-can-follow-up-on-the-incomplete-and-redacted-mueller-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-congress-can-follow-up-on-the-incomplete-and-redacted-mueller-report\/","title":{"rendered":"How Congress Can Follow Up on the Incomplete and Redacted Mueller Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The<span> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5567077\/mueller-report-release\/\">release on April 18 of a redacted version of the Mueller report<\/a><span> <\/span>came after two years of allegations, speculation and insinuation \u2013 but not a lot of official information about what really happened between the Trump campaign and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Nor had there been much light shed on whether the president tried to obstruct the investigation into his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190418155122\/https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/storage\/report.pdf\">report<\/a><span> <\/span>prepared by<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/sco\">special counsel Robert Mueller<\/a><span> <\/span>and issued by the Justice Department provided greater detail about those questions. And it offered more information about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<div class=\"truth-post-content-high  inline-callout-container\" id=\"truth-1783136557\">\n<div class=\"truth-post-content-high\" id=\"truth-831477288\">\n<aside class=\" callout inline-callout callout--subscribe callout--dark\" id=\"truth-208639196\">\n<h2>Don\u2019t miss a beat<\/h2>\n<p>Get the latest news and thought-provoking analysis from Truthout.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Trump administration will want to argue that<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/04\/18\/trump-allies-dismiss-mueller-report-details-claim-total-vindication.html\">the release of the Mueller report is the end of investigating<\/a><span> <\/span>the Russia scandal.<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, the version of the report released is only the start of wide-ranging and intensive House investigations.<\/p>\n<p>I served as<span> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanwatchdog.org\/index.cfm?fuseaction=about.viewContributors&amp;bioid=75\">special deputy chief counsel of the House Iran-contra investigation<\/a><span> <\/span>of the Reagan administration. We did<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=uc1.31210016413021;view=1up;seq=3\">months of hearings<\/a><span> <\/span>on the type of material that is either incomplete or redacted, as today\u2019s Congress will find, in the Mueller report.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the ways the House will likely follow up with more investigation.<\/p>\n<h2>1. Bring in Witnesses to Testify<\/h2>\n<p>The House will call some of the witnesses mentioned in the report for their full story, not just their cameo appearance in this incomplete report.<\/p>\n<p>For example,<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2019\/4\/18\/18411170\/mueller-report-release-doj-trump-mcgahn-flynn\">the report has the public\u2019s first account<\/a><span> <\/span>from Michael T. Flynn, Trump\u2019s first national security adviser. So, there are a number of contacts mentioned for the first time on the public record between Flynn and Russia that in my reading consistently demonstrate Trump\u2019s partiality to Putin and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>But, until we get a House public hearing with Flynn as a witness, we will not know the full story.<\/p>\n<p>Why did Trump have such a strong bond with Putin? Did Trump have a personal reason, not some foreign policy reason, to favor Russia? Why did Trump&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/how-congress-can-follow-up-on-the-incomplete-and-redacted-mueller-report\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The release on April 18 of a redacted version of the Mueller report came after two years of allegations, speculation and insinuation \u2013 but not a lot of official information about what really happened between the Trump campaign and Russia. Nor had there been much light shed on whether the president tried to obstruct the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}