Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe is coming to an end in just weeks, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-I.A., said Tuesday.
Grassley, the former head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is about as close an insider to the controversial investigation as you can get.
His words echo acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s from 8 days ago. On Jan. 28th, Whitaker told reporters the probe was “close to being completed.” He said he’d been “fully briefed” on it’s contents, and that the end was coming shortly.
Grassley’s prediction, however, included much more precise information on when exactly Mueller will present his findings.
So when is the date the probe will finally show it’s conclusion to the Attorney General’s office?
“Within a month,” Grassley told radio host Hugh Hewitt.
That means the Mueller probe is just about finished, and that no later than Mar. 6th, special counsel’s office — frequently criticized by President Donald Trump as an expensive, partisan “witch hunt” — is finally going to be done.
Grassley wasn’t sure the general public would ever get to see the conclusion, but he’s not happy about it.
“I look at it from this standpoint,” he told Hewitt. “I don’t care what the report says. We paid $25 million, maybe $35 million to do it, and the public ought to know what their $25 or $35 million bought.”
“Except for national security and the privacy of individuals — those would be understandably redacted — everything else, I think, ought to be out,” he said.
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