Does the Subpoena Reveal The Oz? Sensitive Committee on the Investigative Investigation of the Capitol Attack and the 2020 Presidential Election
Trump’s attorneys frame the subpoena as an infringement of his First Amendment rights by attacking it as overly broad. The committee is looking for the same information as other sources besides Trump.
The committee still has a report to publish and could also request that the Justice Department pursue charges against Trump or his former aides for their roles in helping to incite the attack on the Capitol and their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
CNN’s John King said the committee is trying to make the case thatTrump is Oz. “He presents himself as all powerful, but when you look, it’s actually a little guy behind a curtain trying to pull a machine.”
Is there stilltempt? The Democratic-controlled congress could vote to hold him in contempt of Congress, something it has done with several other uncooperative witnesses.
Prosecution. If found guilty, Trump could face up to 30 days in jail. The congressman will give a sentencing later this month for not complying with the subpoena.
A Response from George Conway on the Supreme Court’s investigation of treason and misconduct against the U.S. Attorney General’s Office
George Conway, a Trump critic and conservative lawyer, predicted during an appearance on CNN that none of that would happen. This is about marking something. This is about triggering a response (from Trump).”
The Supreme Court made clear where it stands on the status of the former president when it ignored his attempts to stop the National Archives from sharing information with the committee.
Trump has also foiled the DOJ’s efforts to keep things quiet in the weeks leading up to the election, leading to a steady barrage of headlines related to the investigation.
Cheney, who serves as vice chair of the House committee, singled out people who invoked the Fifth Amendment or refused to testify rather than elaborate on their communications with Trump on January 6, 2021, including:
Most recently, in 1974, Gerald Ford testified voluntarily as president before a House subcommittee about his decision to pardon former President Richard Nixon.
Thomas Jefferson was subpoenaed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to attend the trial of a former Vice President for treason, but he declined. Some documents were provided by Jefferson. Burr was eventually acquitted.
The financial documents can be obtained by New York investigators. Trump’s company will go on criminal trial this month on charges of violating tax laws.
The judge forced him to comply with subpoenas from New York’s Attorney General, who was looking into his business practices. He used the Fifth Amendment to protect himself against self-incrimination.
Trump, his three oldest children and the Trump Organization were subsequently sued by James. On Thursday, James asked a state court to block Trump from moving assets to shield them from the lawsuit.
The Trump-Trump Legislature Needs a Rest ‘Number’ in the Cold, But Trump Does Need to Be Innocent
That means the January 6 committee must plan to wrap up all of its work by January 3, 2023, when the next Congress begins and the January 6 committee may be no more.
The House January 6 committee voted to subpoena him after laying bare his depraved efforts to overthrow the 2020 election and his dereliction of duty as his mob invaded the US Capitol.
The committee needs to hear from Donald Trump, more so than just fact- finding. The American people’s accountability is a question. He has to be held accountable. He is required to answer for his actions,” Thompson said.
There is no indication that the ex-president will be charged in either probe. There are signs of an increasingly aggressive investigation by special counsel Jack Smith and the fact that there is limited time for any possible prosecutions before the next presidential campaign is in full swing are behind the sense that Trump is approaching a moment of maximum legal peril. Trump’s already questionable hopes of winning a national election, meanwhile, could absorb new blows with the unveiling of the January 6 committee’s final report next week and its possible criminal referrals to the Department of Justice.
While Trump has frequently defied gathering investigative storms, and ever since launching his presidential campaign in 2015 has repeatedly confounded predictions of his imminent demise, there’s a sense that he’s sliding into an ever-deeper legal hole.
As the House select committee hearing went on, the Supreme Court sent word from across the road that it’s got no interest in getting sucked into Trump’s bid to derail a Justice Department probe into classified material he kept at Mar-a-Lago.
The court denied his request to intervene, which could have delayed the case. Conservatives on the bench who may owe Trump a debt of loyalty didn’t have to make a dissent.
On the Discovery of Obstruction to Justice in the Ex-President’s First Judicial Action: The Mar-a-Lago Dispatch
It is the clash over classified documents that appears to represent the ex- President’s most clear cut and immediate threat of being exposed to criminal charges, as evidenced by the ongoing revelations over one of thedarkest days in modern American history.
More news broke showing that the ex- President could be in grave legal trouble after another Justice Department investigation into January 6. The House version did not give the DOJ the power to make indictments.
A person wearing a hat was seen walking out of a courthouse in Washington, DC. A person familiar with the matter said that Short was forced to testify for the second time. A former national security aide to Trump was seen walking into the area where the grand jury meets. The reporter was not told what he was doing.
CNN’s Brown had reported late on Wednesday that a Trump employee had told the FBI about being directed by the ex-President to move boxes out of a basement storage room at his Florida club after Trump’s legal team received a subpoena for any classified documents. The FBI has video of a staffer moving boxes.
On the face of it, this development is troubling since it could suggest a pattern of deception that plays into a possible obstruction of justice charge. On the initial search warrant before the FBI showed up at Trump’s home in August, the bureau told a judge there could be “evidence of obstruction” at the resort.
Still, David Schoen, who was Trump’s defense lawyer in his second impeachment, told CNN’s “New Day” that though the details of what happened at Mar-a-Lago raised troubling questions, they did not necessarily amount to a case of obstructing justice.
Now federal investigators are planning for a burst of post-election activity in Trump-related investigations. If Trump decides to run for president, moves like the possibility of indictments of associates could be made more complicated.
A Select Committee Resolution to the Unselect Committees on the January 6, 2016 Analytical Report on the Campaign by Donald W. Budowich
As always, Trump came out fighting on Thursday, one of those days when the seriousness of a crisis he is facing can often be gauged by the vehemence of the rhetoric he uses to respond.
The select committee voted 9-0 in favor of issuing a subpoena for the former President.
“Pres Trump will not be intimidate(d) by their meritless rhetoric or un-American actions. Budowich wrote that America First leadership and solutions would be restored with the sweep of the Midterms.
Then the former President weighed in on his Truth Social network with another post that failed to answer the accusations against him, but that was clearly designed to stir a political reaction from his supporters.
I don’t understand why the Unselect Committees didn’t ask me to testify in the past. Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of their last meeting? Because the Committee is a total debacle. Trump wrote.
The committee declined to comment on the filing, which comes days before the the deadline set by the committee for Trump to begin cooperating. But the suit likely dooms the prospect of Trump ever having to testify, given that the committee is expected to disband at the end of the legislative session in January.
The investigation into what happened on January 6 was no longer just about what happened but about the future according to the committee’s Republican vice chair.
“With every effort to excuse or justify the conduct of the former President, we chip away at the foundation of our Republic,” said the Wyoming lawmaker, who won’t be returning to Congress after losing her primary this summer to a Trump-backed challenger.
On Thursday, a House panel voted on whether to issue a subpoena for Donald Trump to testify about the attack.
When Donald Trump and his Democratic Campaign Meet: The Case for a New White House Run after the Dec. 6 Reihung Murah Morse
She said that they are obligated to seek answers from the man who set this all up. Every American has the right to these answers so we can act now to protect our republic.
On the same day that the House committee ordered Trump to turn over the documents and testify, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols sentenced Steve Bannon, Trump’s political advisor, to four months in prison for criminal contempt of Congress after failing to comply with a different committee subpoena.
The DOJ said in a court filing Monday that the attack on the Capitol was mitigated by the fact that Bannon evaded the committee’s subpoena.
Trump’s former aide was subpoenaed last year by the committee, along with other Trump associates, for an alleged meeting at the Willard Hotel near the White House the night before Jan. 6.
A new period of political turmoil is looming because of Donald Trump and his movement posing new challenges to accountability, free elections and the rule of law.
Trump dropped his clearest hint yet Saturday of a new White House run at a moment when he’s on a new collision course with the Biden administration, the courts and facts.
A pile of confrontations is propelling Trump back into the forefront of US politics, after he lost reelection in 2020. It’s likely to deepen polarization in an already deeply divided nation. The early stages of the 2024 presidential race will likely be thrown into turmoil because of Trump’s return to the spotlight.
The current controversy shows that a potential 2020 presidential campaign based on the ex President’s claims of political persecution would be more disruptive than his four years in office.
And while fierce differences are emerging between Democrats and Republicans over policy on the economy, abortion, foreign policy and crime in the 2022 midterms – while concerns about democracy often rank lower for voters – there is every chance the coming political period revolves mostly around the ex-President’s past and future.
Democrats vs. Republicans: Subpoenas in the 2020 Georgia Senate Race Probe and the Trump Organization’s Tax and Insurance Fraud Trial
Key Trump allies, including South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows are among witnesses that have tried to fight off subpoenas in the state probe into efforts to interfere with the Georgia 2020 election.
In Arizona, one of the ex-President’s favorite candidates, GOP gubernatorial hopeful Kari Lake – a serial spreader of voter fraud falsehoods – is again raising doubts about the election system. Lake thought it likely was not going to be completely fair.
Last week the New York Post quoted a leading Republican as saying that impeachment of Biden was on the table. Nancy Mace told Jake Tapper on State of the Union that she didn’t want to see impeachment proceedings after Trump was impeached. She objected to the process being weaponized. She said if Biden had committed an impeachable offense, it would have to be investigated.
An already pro-Trump Republican presence in Washington is likely to expand after the midterms. Scores of Trump-endorsed candidates are running on a platform of his 2020 election fraud falsehoods, raising questions over whether they will accept results should they lose their races in just over two weeks.
On another politically sensitive front, the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud and grandy larceny trial begins in Manhattan on Monday. The ex- President doesn’t have to be personally charged but the trial will impact his business empire and could prompt fresh claims of being treated unfairly for political reasons, which could inject more controversy into the election season. In a separate civil case, New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, has filed a $250 million civil suit against Trump, three of his adult children and the Trump Organization, alleging that they ran tax and insurance fraud schemes to enrich themselves for years.
The Democrats tried to bring Trump back to the forefront. President Joe Biden equated MAGA followers with “semi-fascism” and some campaigns have tried to scare critical suburban voters by warning pro-Trump candidates are a danger to democracy.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/24/politics/donald-trump-circus-analysis/index.html
Are We Going to Run for a President Again? When Will Cheney and the General Reaction Come After the 2016 Republican National Convention? The Case of the Former President
It’s clear that inflation and gasoline prices are more important to voters than it is to the party in power in Washington.
At a Texas rally on Saturday, the ex President said that he would probably have to run for president again.
“It may take multiple days, and it will be done with a level of rigor and discipline and seriousness that it deserves,” Cheney told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
His first debate against Joe Biden will not be a fight like the one that happened in the circus. This is a far too serious set of issues.”
It is difficult to know if some of the most incriminating testimony about Trump will hold up under a higher evidentiary standard because the committee did not include any cross examination of witnesses. The report’s depositions and transcripts could be used to flesh out any criminal case by the special counsel, and it could also be used to prepare the public for the possibility that Smith will charge Trump.
The former President wouldn’t like the prospect of testifying in a short period of time, since it would be harder for him to dictate the terms of the exchanges and control how his testimony would be used.
Several former prosecutors think the facts exist for a case that could be charged. Garland will have to contend with a historic decision on how to approach the potential indictment of a former President.
If a former president were to run for another White House term, it would cause a lot of controversy. But sparing him from accountability if there’s evidence of a crime would send a damaging signal to future presidents with strongman instincts.
Sources tell CNN that Justice Department officials are debating if a Trump candidacy would lead to the creation of a special counsel to oversee two separate investigations related to the former president.
The Justice Department is also staffing up its investigations with experienced prosecutors so it’s ready for any decisions after the midterms, including the potential unprecedented move of indicting a former president.
One defense attorney working on January 6-related matters said that they can crank up charges on almost anybody if they wanted to, but they had no idea who would be charged.
The Special Counsel’s Role in the January 6 FBI/Russia Investigations: Report on the New York prosecutors, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Hunter Biden
Special Counsels are not immune from political attacks. Both former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation and special counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Russia probe came under withering criticism from their opponents.
Top Justice officials have looked to an old guard of former Southern District of New York prosecutors, bringing into the investigations Kansas City-based federal prosecutor and national security expert David Raskin, as well as David Rody, a prosecutor-turned-defense lawyer who previously specialized in gang and conspiracy cases and has worked extensively with government cooperators.
Rody, whose involvement has not been previously reported, left a lucrative partnership at the prestigious corporate defense firm Sidley Austin in recent weeks to become a senior counsel at DOJ in the criminal division in Washington, according to his LinkedIn profile and sources familiar with the move.
The team at the DC US Attorney’s Office handling the day-to-day work of the January 6 investigations is also growing – even while the office’s sedition cases against right-wing extremists go to trial.
A handful of other prosecutors have joined the January 6 investigations team, including a high-ranking fraud and public corruption prosecutor who has moved out of a supervisor position and onto the team, and a prosecutor with years of experience in criminal appellate work now involved in some of the grand jury activity.
The decision of whether to charge Trump or his associates will ultimately fall to Attorney General Merrick Garland, whom President Joe Biden picked for the job because his tenure as a judge provided some distance from partisan politics, after Senate Republicans blocked his Supreme Court nomination in 2016.
In March, Garland avoided answering a CNN question about the prospect of a special counsel for Trump-related investigations, but said that the Justice Department does “not shy away from cases that are controversial or sensitive or political.”
Garland said that they need to avoid any partisan elements of their decision making. I am intent on making department decisions based on the facts, and not on any kind of partisan considerations, so that they are made on the merits.
Garland’s tough decisions go beyond Trump. The investigation of Hunter Biden, son of the president, is nearing conclusion, according to people briefed on the matter. Matt Gaetz’s investigation is about to be finished after prosecutors recommended against charges.
The person with insight into the thought around the investigations said that they will not charge before they are ready to charge. There will be added pressure to get the cases through before the DOJ can bring charges.
Willis has observed her own version of a quiet period around the midterm election and is seeking to bring witnesses before the grand jury in the coming weeks. CNN could be indicted as soon as December, according to sources.
How those disputes resolve in Georgia – including whether courts force testimony – could improve DOJ’s ability to gather information, just as the House Select Committee’s January 6 investigation added to DOJ’s investigative leads from inside the Trump White House.
Trump’s legal team successfully put in place a complicated court-directed process for sorting through thousands of documents seized from Mar-a-Lago, to determine whether they’re privileged and off limits to investigators. But the Justice Department and intelligence community have had access for weeks to about 100 records marked as classified that Trump had kept in Florida.
The outcome of the intelligence review of those documents may affect if criminal charges will be filed, according to one source.
Two people familiar with the investigation say a federal judge has ordered a Trump adviser to testify before a grand jury.
The Justice Department is closer to charging the case after the judge of the DC District Court granted immunity from prosecution for any information that would be given to the investigators.
The Committee to Protect the Public Interest from the Preliminary 2018 Mar-a-Lago Election: Response to Trump’s Suspense
“This is not a situation where the committee is going to put itself at the mercy of Donald Trump in terms of his efforts to create a circus,” Cheney said.
There’s a chance that the former president will not produce the documents by the time they are done. The committee has been lenient when it comes to deadlines in the past, at least when there’s ongoing communication with a subject’s legal team.
The committee wanted documents from September 1, 2020, two months before the vote, to the present, on the president’s communications with groups like the Proud Boys, as it looks to make a history of the run-up to the election.
Other high-profile people found in the committee’s order include Roger Stone, Stephen Bannon, retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Jeffrey Clark, John Eastman, Rudolph Giuliani and more.
She said that the committee had been working in a collaborative way and that there wouldn’t be disagreements about that. We will have to make those decisions as we come to it.
Trump’s lawsuit was filed in southern district of Florida, where other Trump lawyers obtained a special master to review records seized by the FBI during a search of Mar-a-Lago.
Multiple courts have upheld the committee’s legitimacy, while Trump argues that he should not be able to be questioned about his time in office.
Trump’s lawyers say they’ve communicated with the House over the past week and a half as the subpoena deadlines neared, offering to consider answering written questions while expressing “concerns and objections” about the bulk of the document requests.
If the House went ahead with their demands, they would violate privilege protections surrounding the executive branch, including revealing conversations he had with Justice Department officials and members of Congress about the 2020 election.
The lawsuit raises some protections for the presidency that have never been fully tested by appeals courts, and Trump brought it in a court that hasn’t commented on his standoff with House Democrats throughout the past several years.
The letter also outlined a sweeping request for documents, including personal communications between Trump and members of Congress as well as extremist groups. The nine-member panel extended its deadline this week, even though Trump’s response was due last week.
The committee chair, Bennie Thompson, of Mississippi, wrote a letter to the letter’s author, saying that it appeared to be a delay tactic as the letter didn’t acknowledge that Trump would comply with the subpoena.
In response to the House, Trump instructed a reasonable search for documents in his possession that could fit those two categories. The search found nothing, his lawyers said.
The suit claims that no president or former president has ever been compelled to provide documents or testify in response to congressional subpoenas.
The Committee on Taxes, Prostitution, and Other Charges against the President of the House of Representatives to the House Judiciary Branch
Trump had engaged with the committee in a good faith effort to resolve these concerns consistent with Executive Branch prerogatives and separation of powers, but the panel was unwilling to engage in a political path leaving Trump with no choice but to involve the third branch, the judicial branch, according to Warrington.
“I think that he has an obligation to testify, but he doesn’t always get it,” the committee chair’s vice chairwoman said last week.
Trump and his company deny any wrongdoing or criminality in all matters, state and federal, and have aggressively maintained innocence. Two lawsuits brought by Trump’s niece and former attorney were dismissed this week.
Thompson told reporters earlier this week that they would make referrals. As to how many, we’ve not decided that yet.” The committee is considering criminal referrals for a number of Trump’s closest allies.
The criminal charges being considered are obstruction, conspiracy to defraud the federal government, and insurrection. The recommendations will be presented at a meeting on Monday.
Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, said Thursday that committee members are expected to reach a decision on criminal referrals when members meet virtually on Sunday.
Subpoenaed Meadows: Inappropriate Conduct and the Implications of Trump’s First Congressional Explicit Action against Biden
We decided that we couldn’t overlook some of them because we weren’t investigating them for criminal activities.
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, who leads the January 6 subcommittee tasked with presenting recommendations on criminal referrals to the full committee, said Thursday, “I think anyone who engages in criminal actions needs to be held accountable for them. We are going to spell it out.
“The gravest offense in constitutional terms is the attempt to overthrow a presidential election and bypass the constitutional order,” Raskin told reporters. “Subsidiary to all of that are a whole host of statutory offenses, which support the gravity and magnitude of that violent assault on America.”
Two Democrats and a Republican comprise the panel’s vice chair and subcommittee.
The committee subpoenaed Meadows for documents and testimony in September of last year, and he handed over more than 2,000 text messages he sent and received between Election Day 2020 and Joe Biden’s inauguration. The text messages, which were obtained by CNN, reveal how top Republican Party officials, right-wing figures and even Trump’s family members discussed with Meadows what Trump should say and do after the election and in the middle of the insurrection.
If previous referrals to DOJ for contempt of Congress had any impact on how the panel handles criminal referrals, it was not.
He said that there is a statutory process for making contempt of Congress happen. “But you know we will explain our decisions in detail – why we are making certain kinds of referrals for certain people and other kinds for others.”
David O. Carter, a federal judge in California, ordered Eastman to turn over 101 emails from the period around January 6, 2021, that he has tried to keep secret from the House select committee, which after a lengthy court battle, the panel ultimately received.
In the hearing, the committee walked through how he put forward a theory that was rejected by Donald Trump’s White House attorneys but that he embraced by the former President as being able to block certification of the election.
The former DOJ official was facing a criminal contempt of congress referral at the time after he refused to answer questions at a previous deposition. The referral was never sent to DOJ because on the day the committee voted on the contempt referral, Clark’s lawyer informed the committee that he planned to invoke his Fifth Amendment right to not answer questions on the grounds it may incriminate him.
The panel dedicated much of a June hearing to Clark’s role in Trump’s attempts to weaponize the Justice Department in the final months of his term as part of the plot to overturn the 2020 election and stay in power.
The committee zeroed in on the efforts of ScottPerry who connected Clark to the White House in December 2020.
CNN has previously reported on the role that Perry played, and the committee in court filings released text messages Perry exchanged with Meadows about Clark.
At the hearing where Cassidy Hutchinson was a witness, a portion of her deposition was played in which she said that he wanted Mr. Jeff Clark to take over the Department of Justice.
Giuliani, Trump’s onetime personal attorney and a lead architect of his attempt to overturn the 2020 election results, met with the panel in May for more than nine hours.
But each sign that once slow burning efforts to work through the trauma of the post-election period are heating up brings a parallel warning that the future threat to truth and democracy remains acute. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, a key force in the incoming GOP House majority that’s likely to try to shut down or obstruct investigations into Trump, is currently in the middle of another controversy over the insurrection.
The mob that broke into the Capitol could have been armed, according to the Georgia Republican. She rejected the White House condemnations by saying she was joking. A few days after the ex-president demanded that the constitution be terminated in a sign of how his second term might unfold if he wins the White House in 2024, there was a new episode of voter fraud.
Even if most Americans are more concerned with feeding their families and paying rent, the idea that Trump is attempting to overturn a presidential election in order to benefit himself is still very strange. And Trump’s campaign of lies is having a damaging impact. Even after Republicans won the House last month, a new CNN/SSRS poll published Monday found that only 34% of Republican-aligned adults are even somewhat confident that elections reflect the will of the people – down from 43% in October.
CNN reported Sunday that Smith is speeding ahead on twin probes into Trump’s role in an effort to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power in 2020 and his apparently haphazard storage of classified documents at his Florida residence and resort. The phone call the president made to the Georgia Secretary of State was used to try to get him to overturn the result in the Peach State. Smith has issued a lot of grand jury subpoenas since Thanksgiving, among them ex- Trump adviser Stephen Miller.
“It’s been over 700 days since the Washington Post published the full hour audio … of that highly incriminating phone call – 700 days for the DOJ to finally get around to subpoena him. When will it happen? Under Jack Smith.”
If Trump’s legal team thought Smith’s appointment after a period spent abroad meant he was less likely to be influenced by the politicized aftermath of the January 6 attack and that a fresh mind would lean against indictments then they were guilty of wishful thinking.
Smith’s appointment and his team of seasoned prosecutors was bad news for Donald Trump, according to a former US attorney for the Southern District of New York.
I think they would not have left their previous positions in government and private practice if the Justice Department was about to charge. And I think it’ll happen in a month,” he said.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has vowed that no one is above the law and that investigations will go where the evidence leads. But the reality of the legal process means that any trials would take considerable time to prepare and conduct. The prospect of a prosecution of a former president and current presidential candidate is so politically explosive that it would be optimal for any proceedings to take place well before the climax of the 2024 White House race.
It is a challenge to finish either case, if it is brought, to finish it before the election, says CNN Legal analyst Jennifer Rodgers on Monday.
“So, I think they will bring a case on the documents side, if they can, as soon as they can,” Rodgers said, adding that any case on January 6 would probably take more time.
Smith is following legal procedures but the political context makes it more incumbent on the DOJ to demonstrate to Americans that they had no choice but to conduct an unprecedented search at an ex-president’s home.
It is yet another reason why the early months of the year are beginning to look like a moment of judgement for both Trump and those who are investigating him.
The final committee report could include additional charges proposed for Trump, according to the source. It will give a reason for the charges to be recommended.
Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Trump, criticized the committee in a statement as a “Kangaroo court” that held “show trials by Never Trump partisans who are a stain on this country’s history.”
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a member of the committee, told CNN’s Jake Tapper Friday that the panel has “been very careful in crafting these recommendations and tethering them to the facts that we’ve uncovered.”
We spent a lot of time on what the code sections were and the bottom line recommendation, but I think it is very important that people understand what we are doing when we discuss it, because they will have a vote on it.
Commission on seditious conspiracy and obstruction of legislative process in connection with the attack on the US Capitol, MS Democrat Xorio Thompson
The Justice Department has mostly focused on criminal statutes related to the violence, for obstruction of a congressional proceeding and some limited cases for seditious conspiracy when charging defendants in connection with the attack on US Capitol.
The committee will hold its final public meeting on Monday and the panel’s full report will be released Wednesday, according to Thompson. The public will not be able to see the final report until two days later when the panel will approve it, said the Mississippi Democrat.