Former special counsel Robert Mueller arrives to testify before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday.
Former special counsel Robert Mueller arrives to testify before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday. Credit: AP

If nothing else emerged from Robert Mueller’s testimony this week, it is absolutely clear that Attorney General William Barr and his henchmen in the Justice Department are engaged in a deliberate attempt to mischaracterize the Mueller report, and to withhold evidence contained within it from the American people.

Anyone who has actually looked at the public version of the report knows that there are pages and pages of cuts which put crucial evidence about the Trump campaign’s contacts and with Russian agencies entirely out of reach for the general public.

It is high time that voters be allowed to see the report in its entirety and be given the opportunity to judge for themselves before the 2020 election.

Anything less only continues Barr’s cover-up. Anything less undermines the sovereign authority of the American people as citizens of a democracy.

Peter Scotto

South Hadley