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Letter: No need for the entire Mueller report to come out

(Charles Dharapak | The Associated Press) In this Oct. 28, 2013, file photo, former FBI Director Robert Mueller is seated before President Barack Obama and FBI Director James Comey arrive at an installation ceremony at FBI Headquarters in Washington. The special counsel’s investigation has not come close to spending $50 million, according to a Justice Department report released in December. According to the report, the most recent available, the investigation had cost just over $25 million as of September 2018. The Justice Department said in the report that it would have spent $13 million on the investigation regardless of Mueller being appointed. False claims regarding spending on the investigation began circulating after President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, testified Wednesday before the House Oversight and Reform Committee.

The anti-Trumpers have figured out that the Mueller report will not contain any indictment of the president. The way Washington works, if there was such bombshell evidence of collusion or illegal acts, it would have been leaked by now.

As a result, they are calling for every word of the report to be made public in hopes there is at least some embarrassing information in there about Trump to further their narrative and agenda.

Despite the fact that the law does not require the report, or even a summary, to be made public, it is certain that something will be released. Then there will be screams of "Cover-up!"

It is foolish to suggest that every word should be released, as it is obvious that Mueller's report, in dealing with Russian interference for example, will contain classified information and classified sources that need to be protected. Secondly, those people who were investigated but found innocent of any prosecutable offenses are entitled to their privacy.

Making the argument that the taxpayers paid for it so we are entitled to all of it is akin to saying we paid for Nancy Pelosi's office desk and F-35 fighter jets so we should be entitled to those as well.

Troy Pyles, St. George

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