What If We Already Have The Mueller Report?

[DaisyDay]

There has been a lot of commentary on Mueller's indictments being so unusually detailed.
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Perry Bacon Jr. of FiveThirtyEight speculate on this:

...But it’s also possible that the American public will never get to read Mueller’s report — at least not the full version. That’s because Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker (assuming that he’s still in the job when the report comes in) and other Justice Department officials will give key members of Congress a brief overview of what’s in the report and then determine whether and how to make Mueller’s findings public. It’s not at all obvious that Whitaker, who has been critical of Mueller’s investigation in the past, will want to share the full report more broadly, and President Trump’s attorneys might even try to block its release.

But in some ways, Mueller has been writing a public “report” over the past 13 months, through the indictments and charging documents that his office has issued. Many of the indictments, describing what Mueller and his team have found, are more detailed than required. (Much of the detail in a supplement to Michael Flynn’s sentencing memo released late Tuesday was redacted.)
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I wouldn't be surprised if they are correct. It's an interesting read.

 

[Paulos23]

I find Fivethirtyeight to be a thoughtful place to go when I need my assumptions checked. They may be right this time.

The fact that the indictments are more detailed than necessary is an interesting detail.

 

[LoAmmi]

Not that it would effect Trump's base in the slightest, but I'd view the report being suppressed by the administration to be an admission that stuff is in there that Trump wouldn't want people to see. We deserve transparency from our government, even if they do bad things.