The Justice Department revealed on Tuesday that it had yet to share with Congress any of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s notes from his team’s interviews with several former Trump administration officials and advisers, including former White House counsel Don McGahn, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former Trump aide Steve Bannon and former White House communications director Hope Hicks.

In fact, the department indicated Congress has yet to receive any of the notes — known as FBI-302s — from 16 of Mueller’s interviews with senior Trump administration, Trump confidants and Justice Department officials, despite an agreement reached in June to provide access to the documents.


In a new court filing demanded by Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court in Washington, the department revealed it had provided portions of 17 sets of Mueller witness interview notes to the House Judiciary Committee. These include interviews provided by Chris Christie, Michael Cohen, Corey Lewandowski, Paul Manafort, Rod Rosenstein, Chris Ruddy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Sean Spicer. Though several of these include light redactions to protect personal information, others — such as the interview notes of former Trump staff secretary Rob Porter, a crucial witness to potential obstruction of justice — were heavily redacted, perhaps by as much as 75 percent, the Justice Department revealed. Department officials indicated that the redactions were necessary because Porter had “direct conversations with the President.”