there s not actually a requirement in the special counsel regulation that a report, in other words, a comprehensive narrative describing the whole investigation, be made public. the different things that could happen, the special counsel has some leeway. the special counsel s office could write a report, or what i tend to think is more likely is that they ll write prosecution memos that they give to the deputy attorney general, and then it s up to him whether or not to make those reports public. if the washington post reporting turns out to be correct, that they re actually intending to create a narrative for public consumption, that actually is a little bit different than what i would have expected. carrie is right that there is no clear answer in the statute or the regulations for what kind of report. another possibility is mueller may decide that there is evidence of impeachable offenses and may decide to give something to congress. he has a lot of discretion, and
i mean where would that report actually go? is that a report that might become public? yeah. so i find that aspect of this new report from the washington post really interesting because there s not actually a requirement in the special counsel regulation that a report, in other words, a comprehensive narrative describing the whole investigation, be made public. the different things that could happen, the special counsel has some leeway. the special counsel s office could write a report, or what i tend to think is more likely is that they ll write prosecution memos that they give to the deputy attorney general, and then it s up to him whether or not to make those reports public. if the washington post reporting turns out to be correct, that they re actually intending to create a narrative for public consumption, that actually is a little bit different than what i would have expected. carrie is right that there is no clear answer in the statute or the regulations for what kind