Mueller Report Release Could Be Slowed By Historian’s Loss (1)

Historian Stuart McKeever can’t have access to grand jury evidence involving the 1957 indictment of an FBI agent, a federal appeals court ruled in a divided opinion that legal experts say could effectively make the public wait longer to see the Mueller report.

“There needs to be some kind of ongoing legislative inquiry—whether for impeachment or something else—in order to obtain the Mueller report given today’s D.C. Circuit decision,” said former federal prosecutor Harry Sandick of the April 5 decision that’s unrelated to the special counsel’s Russia investigation.

Absent such an inquiry, McKeever’s appellate loss—which limits a judge’s ability to ...