DOJ Reviewing ‘Alternative’ Mueller Report Ahead of Its Possible Release

Then-Special counsel Robert Mueller speaks on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election at the U.S. Justice Department in Washington on May 29, 2019. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is reviewing a so-called alternative Mueller Report mentioned in a book by Andrew Weissmann, one of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s top prosecutors, with court filings indicating that the document has been found, it’s now being processed, and there are plans for it to be released.

A Dec. 2 filing (pdf), first reported by Politico, shows attorneys from the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office telling District Judge Katherine Polk Failla that officials have “located and begun processing” the document that Weissmann was referring to in his book, “Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation.”