A request for records akin to Watergate “road map” comes up dry.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors never drafted a report to Congress about alleged misconduct by President Donald Trump, Justice Department lawyers indicated in a court filing Friday.
DOJ attorneys said they were unable to locate any records in Mueller’s files that were responsive to a Freedom of Information Act request seeking reports and compilations “prepared for the eventual consideration of one or more members of Congress, whether or not such records were actually transmitted to any party outside of the Special Counsel’s Office.”
The FOIA request, submitted in November 2018 by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, invoked a grand jury’s submission to the House Judiciary Committee in 1974 of a so-called “road map”to evidence in the Watergate scandal. The point-by-point guide received a spate of fresh publicity in the fall of 2018 after a judge ordered disclosure of portions of the nearly half-century-old compendium. Continue reading.