The Justice Department on Wednesday released the unredacted version of a 2019 memo that made the case to then-Attorney General William Barr that President Donald Trump should not be charged with obstruction of justice in the Russia investigation.
The nine-page memo, from March 24, 2019, was written by Steven Engel, then the assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, and Ed O’Callaghan, who was the Justice Department’s principal associate deputy attorney general. Barr, a critic of then-special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, announced that the Justice Department would not prosecute the case the same day the memo was sent to him.
