“At least for posterity, I had all the members … write up an internal report memorializing everything we found, our conclusions, and the limitations on the investigation, and provided it to the other team leaders as well as had it maintained in our files.” Andrew Weissmann, Where Law Ends, as quoted by American Greatness, Dec. 3, 2021
In Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation, Weissmann wrote that he had members of the special counsel’s team produce an internal write-up. Epoch Times (Tom Ozimek, Dec. 4, 2021) and NTD reprinted the same FOIA story: the New York Times sued for the document; a Dec. 2 filing in that case, first reported by Politico, showed Manhattan Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Jude telling Judge Katherine Polk Failla that officials had “located and begun processing” the record and intended to release “all non-exempt portions.” Primary processing was estimated to finish by the end of January 2022, then go to other DOJ components for consultation.
American Greatness (Dec. 3, 2021) described the unused files as findings from the team Weissmann led on the Manafort side of the office — not as a published second official Mueller Report. Epoch Times noted Weissmann’s dissatisfaction with the final public report and quoted the Times lawsuit’s claim that an alternative version “suggests that there was important facts or findings omitted from the original.” That is the newspaper’s pleading language, not a court finding that the official report omitted a crime.
Documented The book passage and the FOIA docket language are real. This page does not pretend to have the memo’s full text, does not invent what it “proved,” and does not treat a processing letter as a release. If a later official production is cited, it is not attached to this draft.