Pelosi tells Dems she'll reject highly classified briefing on Mueller findings [View all]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democrats on Saturday she'll rebuff any efforts by the Justice Department to reveal details of special counsel Robert Mueller's findings in a highly classified setting a tactic she warned could be employed to shield the report's conclusions from the public.
Two sources who participated in a conference call among House Democrats said Pelosi (D-Calif.) told lawmakers she worried the Justice Department would seek to disclose Mueller's conclusions to the so-called Gang of Eight the top Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate which handles the nations most sensitive secrets. The substance of Gang of Eight briefings are heavily guarded.
Everyone pounded the transparency drum continuously, said a source who was on the Saturday afternoon call.
Pelosi said it was her belief that the findings of the report should be unclassified, a consistent theme from Democrats who said they wanted Attorney General William Barr to share virtually every scrap of paper connected to the Mueller report with Congress.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/23/pelosi-mueller-report-1233317