I had this discussion with JB a few threads ago
by law, Mueller has to give the AG the report. It could be as as short as "found nothing"
The 1999 Federal Register for Section 600 Office of Special Counsel (I didn’t check for any updates)
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1999-07-09/pdf/99-17327.pd There are "discussion sections" for laws (or sections of laws) in Fed. Reg. that give clarity\rules for executing the law.
600.08 Notification and Reports by the Special Counsel
Therefore, these regulations impose a
limited reporting requirement on all Special Counsels, in
the form of a summary final report to the Attorney General.
600.09 Notification and Reports by the Attorney General
To help ensure congressional and public confidence in the integrity of the process, the
regulations impose on the Attorney General these reporting requirements to the Judiciary
Committees of the Congress. These reports will occur on three occasions:
- on the appointment of a Special Counsel,
- on the Attorney General’s decision to remove a Special Counsel,
- and on the completion of the Special Counsel’s work.
These
reports will be brief notifications, with an outline of the actions and the reasons for them.
So the SC report is a summary and the AG report is even shorter. The actual SC report never need be released. And as I read it, the AG never need release the SC report even to congress.
should be interesting.