By BRENT MARTIN

St. Joseph Post

U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt supports release of the Mueller report with substantial portions blacked out to the public.

Blunt, a Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, says the 400-page report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller clears the Trump campaign of collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential election.

“Clearly, I was not surprised when the Mueller report said that didn’t happen. We’d looked hard for two years and hadn’t found collusion between the campaign and any outside source, including the Russians,” Blunt tells reporters during a stop in St. Joseph. “It’s also equally true, by the way, that the Russians tried to do bad stuff, just like they’ve done in European elections for a couple of decades now. We need to be alert to that.”

Blunt says the portions of the report which disclose the investigation of certain individuals who were not charged with a crime have been properly blacked out in the report going public today.

“If there is a crime or a crime that could lead to a future indictment, that’s one thing, but you will hear a lot of complaining that well, we ought to see everything,” Blunt says. “The truth is we shouldn’t see everything and if you were the one that the federal government had set its sights on you wouldn’t want them to see everything either.”

The Attorney General also redacted grand jury testimony and classified information.

Mueller began his investigation nearly two years ago before filing it with the Department of Justice.

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