ultimately is something that would become that would become publicly available or be at least briefed to congress in some way, presumably any ongoing criminal investigation that that was referred to in those large redactions in that scoping memo, eventually those criminal cases get finished. eventually those things get done. if it s an intelligence matter and not a criminal matter, does adam schiff on the intelligence committee tonight have a point when he says regardless of criminal cases, regardless of prosecution decisions, we on the intelligence committee get to know everything that has intelligence consequences, and that s a requirement by law? i think he does, and there are precedents. there s a d.c. circuit precedent from the watergate area that applies to the house judiciary committee more than the intelligence committee that says if they do send up a subpoena or even if they ask for the information as part of their investigation, they should be able to get it. even grand
made public, and if we need to do so by redacting information, then we do that. if we can declassify information in the interests of transparency and not sacrifice sources and methods, then we can do that too. what are you going to do if barr says no? if william barr says this report has been submitted to me, i have the one copy of this report, i believe that the principal conclusions should be briefed and as far as i m concerned the principal conclusions are these are the people that have been indicted and other than that there s no justice department responsibility to pass anything else on, i don t care about public clamor, i don t care about statements about what i must do from anybody. i m just going o to sit on all the rest of it. presumably subpoenaing the report, subpoenaing mr. mueller himself, subpoenaing other people involved in the investigation, ultimately those subpoenas get enforced through the justice department, don t they? i mean, if william barr decided that he was
all of your colleagues on that committee deal with very sensitive information all the time, and there are protocols for those for that committee that there aren t for any other part of congress because of the sensitivity of material that you re with which you re entrusted. given that, given your training in that matter, given your experience with that, given how seriously you take that, i wonder if there s anything you can imagine might be in this report that really can t go broadly to congress, that can t go especially to the public. if there s anything with intelligence that relates to intelligence matters that you would be sympathetic to keeping under wraps, either just being briefed to your committee or just being held within the justice department. there may very well be things in the report that require minor redactions that might go to a source of information that was gathered by an intel agency. i wouldn t be surprised, frankly, if bob mueller left those specific source r
judiciary committee when the judiciary committee was run by republicans. so they ve set the precedent. if the justice didnepartment doesn t release the whole report or tries to keep parts of it secret, we will certainly subpoena the parts of the report, and we will reserve the right to call mueller or to testify before the committee or to subpoena him as several other committees might do. we ll only do that if necessary, obviously. the important thing is that the entire report be made public and the evidence behind it be given to the relevant committees so the american people can be informed. tonight is a landmark moment. i would still be fishing otherwise, but we still have no idea as to what robert mueller has found. you heard the chairman of the judiciary committee talking about the need to disclose this information and plans to get it. we don t know what the
even while that investigation was ongoing. so yes there could be very small things, but i think the most important point is this investigation began as a counter intelligence investigation, not a criminal investigation. it went to look at the question of whether people were acting as agent s of a foreign power. that information needs to be made public, and if we need to do so by redacting information, then we do that. if we can declassify information in the interests of transparency and not sacrifice sources and methods, then we can do that too. what are you going to do if barr says no? if william barr says this report has been submitted to me, i have the one copy of this report, i believe that the principal conclusions should be briefed and as far as i m concerned the principal conclusions are these are the people that have been indicted and other than that there s no justice department responsibility to pass anything else on, i don t care about public clamor, i don t care about sta