Despite a deal struck in June, the DOJ has not provided Congress with notes of Mueller's interviews with several former Trump administration officials and advisers
The Justice Department revealed on Tuesday that it had yet to share with Congress any of special counsel Robert Mueller’s notes from his team’s interviews with several former Trump administration officials and advisers, including former White House counsel Don McGahn, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former Trump aide Steve Bannon and former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks.
In fact, the department indicated that Congress had yet to receive any of the notes — known as FBI-302s — from 16 of Mueller’s interviews with senior Trump administration and Justice Department officials, despite an agreement reached in June to provide access to the documents.In a new court filing demanded by Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the D.C.
Howell, during a Tuesday hearing, asked for details about the degree of cooperation between the Justice Department and the committee to determine whether Democrats’ demand for grand jury material has merit. The department indicated that it intends to make the remaining 16 sets of witness interview notes available “as processing is completed” and as long as they don’t interfere with ongoing cases.
Witnesses whose notes the House has seen parts of include former campaign and White House aide Rick Dearborn, former White House chief of staff John Kelly, former deputy national security adviser K.T. McFarland, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and current senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller.
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